On Monday 21 October 2002 03:17 pm, Ortolan88 wrote:
I'll suggest this again. Banning a contributor forces some authority figure to decide who is right and wrong. Why not freeze the topic instead?
But then which version gets frozen? Choosing one over the other is taking sides so that shouldn't be a reason why a page gets frozen. Page freezing should only be done when somebody is trying to hijack a page and therefore starts an edit war - which IMO is a form of highly-directed vandalism that saps user recourses. But this should only be uses as a last resort.
There is no hurry to complete any topic, but edit wars are fueled by adrenaline and adrenaline doesn't last.
I agree. We would have to change some wording on the Main Page that would make us look not as open though....
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-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)