[Foundation-l] Dealing with interwiki disruption

[White Cat]

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 at 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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