I think Alvaro the distinction that we should draw is between
"incivility" which may be a one-off, or even a once-per-week, versus
"disruptive behaviour".
It's not cut-and-dry, it's not an easy call and often people make the
wrong call. If I'm antagonized I will respond. Parents might punish
both children involved in a fight, judges have to decide if maybe one
person was "more wrong" then the other.
Deciding that it's OK to "indefinite ban" a type of behaviour that
previously resulted in something like a 12 hour block is a bit
Draconian.
-----Original Message-----
From: Alvaro García <alvareo(a)gmail.com>
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 1:38 pm
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] How to raise the tone of the wiki
Maybe my example's not too clear, but my point is you can't justify
trolling nor excessive arguing with "Hey, let's be nice with him, he's
having a bad day". That way the world would be in a massive chaos.
--
Alvaro