From: "James D. Forrester" james@jdforrester.org Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org To: "'English Wikipedia'" wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Re: Broken dispute resolution mechanisms (was Reithyis a problem) Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 12:07:29 -0000
Thirdly, sentences should be much, much harsher. Ban them for life and get it over with. Banning only slows them down anyway, most of them will come back under a different name. But at least the community will be able to unite behind the AC ruling.
This was tried at first by one arbitrator but was overruled by the majority. Unless the bulk of the arbitrators differ markedly from the users there is little support for lifetime banning.
Proof that the process is broken. We all know what a troll is.
We do? Wow. Then why needs there be any dispute resolution process at all, if it is always so very clear-cut for "all" of us?
Blanket statements of black-and-white judgement are almost always wrong, and certainly normally laughable.
Hmm. Yes, the statement was too strong, but sometimes it's pretty obvious. There are always contrarians, of course, and naturally the troll never considers themself to be a troll.
Jay.