One idea I
have is a ban for one day for each time
the perp uses the
words "stupid", "trash" and
"crap" to describe
another's edit. This
could add up to a year or two for some of these
folks.
I like the idea of short "time-out" bans. I
suggested this a couple of
years ago. Also, it seemed to work fairly well the
time Erik M.
(Eloquence) "banned" RK for just under 24 hours last
year.
My experience is that time-outs work better than
total bans. A ban is
like death or torture: it satisfies one party's
desire for revenge, but
at a terrible cost (hint: think of how the other
party feels, waking up
dead or maimed...)
Kindly Ol' Uncle Ed
IIRC, the general concensus after that was that people
*shouldn't* do unilateral bans in the future and that
Erik should have consulted the list.
LDan
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