Sometimes is hard to tell a harsh dispute from lack of civility.
Generally it's easy to focus on form rather than on substance.
Some issues are very complex to handle, for example some weeks ago, criticizing someone (who wrote an aggravating email on this thread) brought me to receive some truly nice insults in a private email. It's a very complex case of a behavior which is formally "right" but which is widely considered as destructive within the involved community.
WMF bans are meant to handle issues which cannot be handled by ordinary community means, above all because they involve out-of-wiki elements.
In a recent incident I advocated for some changes in WMF ban (namely, giving a wider framework to people which are supposed to help enforcing them) but in my experience none of WMF ban I have sufficient background to judge was unjustified.
Vito
Il giorno ven 14 giu 2019 alle ore 22:52 Andy Mabbett < andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk> ha scritto:
On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 at 19:18, Kirill Lokshin kirill.lokshin@gmail.com wrote:
Rather, the problem occurs when a *popular* competent editor violates the civility policy (or, for particularly popular editors, virtually any
other
policy); the traditional consensus-based approach to policy enforcement makes it difficult, if not impossible, to effectively sanction an editor with a substantial contingent of vocal supporters who will argue against any such sanctions whenever the opportunity arises.
This.
And a number (not everyone, of course) of those screaming loudest about the WMF's recent action are those whose style of behaviour would see them sanctioned if a civility policy were properly enforced.
-- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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