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(a)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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