Jimmy Wales wrote:
Sean Barrett wrote:
Does anyone have a strong objection to banning Lir for an hour or so, to let him cool off?
I'm a little late to weigh in on this, but my personal mode of conduct is that instead of banning someone to let them cool off, I should let them have their way for an hour to let them cool off. Just come back to the article tomorrow or the next day and fix it. Probably he won't feel as emotional about it then -- and neither will I.
Banning, even for an hour, should be reserved for pure vandalism. Disagreements about content seldom rise to that level.
In some respects one-hour bans are useless. If by pure chance the offender had just finished his evening's efforts and gone to bed hoping to take the matter up again in the morning, he might not even notice that he has been banned. Ec