[Foundation-l] FW: [Wikinews-l] Increased incivility at wikinews [en] <warning: contains rant>

[Marc Riddell]

> George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Civility, or more properly abusive editors, is not a petty problem.  If I
>> had Jimbo's God-Emperor powers several existing WP users would be walked out
>> the door and invited to not come back, on the grounds that they are
>> persistently abusive and disruptive to other users.  Even being a long time
>> positive contributor cannot overcome the damage done to the community and
>> other editors in particular when one problem abusive user persists.  The
>> damage is both severe in the acute sense and insidious in the long term
>> community values sense.
> 
> on 2/5/09 6:44 PM, Jesse (Pathoschild) at pathoschild at gmail.com wrote:

> I disagree that divine intervention is a solution, but I agree with
> the principle that a productive editor who cannot collaborate is not a
> productive editor. Perhaps you and others can take a look at <
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Collaboration_first >, and put
> together a convincing essay to that effect.

> Convincing the silent
> majority to take a cohesive stance against such behaviour is one
> possible solution.

Absolutely, Jesse. Confront it every time you encounter it. This may be the
most important - and most effective - solution to the problem. The remaining
problem is how to convince that silent majority that their silence is also a
part of the problem.

Marc