Just a thought I had yesterday, & it still seems attractive to me today, but I don't know if this solves the problems we currently have with Wikipedia -- or any problems. (And if it seems acceptible, I would want it adopted only after it passed a poll, made known to all Wikipedians.)
We allow sysops to ban users with accounts for 24 hours, subject to the following procedure:
1. Immediately following the banning, notice of the ban is entered on a page, say, [[Persons Banned for 24 hours]].
2. Within the next 48 hours a certain number of other sysops (say 3 or 5), must add their votes approving this ban.
Failure of both of these acts (or one sysop voting _against_ the ban) then forces this act to be immediately reviewed by a committee (say the Arbitration Committee), who may then remove sysop powers from the person making the ban, reprimand her/him, or decline to act.
The point of this procedure is to allow sysops to ban people they believe are disruptive to Wikipedia _if the sysop is willing to risk her/his reputation_. Hopefully, this will allow sysops to deal with contributors who are disruptive or causing trouble, while checking abuse with the possibility of a severe penalty.
Any thoughts? I'll assume if no one comments that this proposal doesn't answer any pressing need on Wikipedia.
Geoff
There's no point in this. There are sysops who will vote against ANY 24 hour ban, and therefore any sysop who bans someone will be forced to go to arbitration with a chance of having sysop privileges revoked.
RickK
Geoff Burling llywrch@agora.rdrop.com wrote: Just a thought I had yesterday, & it still seems attractive to me today, but I don't know if this solves the problems we currently have with Wikipedia -- or any problems. (And if it seems acceptible, I would want it adopted only after it passed a poll, made known to all Wikipedians.)
We allow sysops to ban users with accounts for 24 hours, subject to the following procedure:
1. Immediately following the banning, notice of the ban is entered on a page, say, [[Persons Banned for 24 hours]].
2. Within the next 48 hours a certain number of other sysops (say 3 or 5), must add their votes approving this ban.
Failure of both of these acts (or one sysop voting _against_ the ban) then forces this act to be immediately reviewed by a committee (say the Arbitration Committee), who may then remove sysop powers from the person making the ban, reprimand her/him, or decline to act.
The point of this procedure is to allow sysops to ban people they believe are disruptive to Wikipedia _if the sysop is willing to risk her/his reputation_. Hopefully, this will allow sysops to deal with contributors who are disruptive or causing trouble, while checking abuse with the possibility of a severe penalty.
Any thoughts? I'll assume if no one comments that this proposal doesn't answer any pressing need on Wikipedia.
Geoff
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