On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:25:04 -0800, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
"Parker Peters" posts are blacklisted at my mail server, so I don't have full text of his comments, nor am I interested, but when you say:
I'm not concerned right now with specifying who deserves the power. Rather than "throw the book" at anyone, I would prefer techniques that give us a better chance to identify those who have been unjustly treated. If a bad egg gets through from time to time that's nothing to worry about. The bad ones are good at repeating their mistakes, and will soon enough let us know.
I agree. There have been several people who have been blocked who I've argued for unblocking on those grounds. At least one was rejected out of hand, and I was loudly denounced for it, and that was probably right as well, since he already had numerous chances which he blew (this was due to medication, but that's not our problem).
Sometimes there are people, like [[User:Lee Nysted]], whose unblocking seems to me to be a complete waste of time. He is here for one reason, and one reason only, and that's to get an article on himself into the project. It's all he's ever done, all he's ever wanted from us, and even when superficially talking about something else, it's obvious that he's talking about just that. And I would not have unblocked [[User:DeanHinnen]] either. I might well be wrong about those, too, but that's the price you pay for having humans instead of robots as admins.
Guy (JzG)