You realize what you are saying is the opposite of what you mean right?
The local community should decide weather or not to give a second chance to the disruptive user. Such a decision should not be made bu the disruptive user.
When a disruptive user blocked on some other wiki starts editing another wiki. Consider a user indef banned from en.wikiquote starts to edit en.wikisource... The local community should know exactly who they are dealing with.
-- White Cat
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 8:37 PM, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Brian McNeil wrote:
I will start by highlighting that I have CheckUser on the English
Wikinews.
This means I am on the CheckUser-l mailing list and have seen the
discussion
that has privately taken place about a global blocking mechanism.
My understanding of the requested functionality is that it is primarily
for
the most irritating IP addresses. We're not talking about someone who
might
reform if they go to another project, we're talking about people who
create
dozens of socks and take a perverse joy in making people clean up after them. The people who project hop in the hope of vandalising undetected;
the
really persistent vandals, not the strongly opinionated. We're talking "Willy on Wheels", not "Wendy on Wako".
If you build an environment of trust this concept would go through more easily, but the enthusiasm that some have shown for the proposal is worrisome. There is no confidence that everyone advantaged by this tool would use it wisely.
It is one thing to say that the tool would only be used against the most flagrant violators; it is quite another to believe that everyone will so limit himself in using a process which must often be performed in secrecy.
The autonomy of projects is important, and members of projects need to feel that the autonomy will not be compromised by others making decisions without consultation with the members of the affected community.
Ec
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