[Gendergap] Content versus behaviour

Miguelinito miguelinito at gmail.com
Thu Feb 10 18:38:19 UTC 2011


Please take a look at this thread:

Discussion "duels" and "wall arguments".

Miguel Ángel

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Estimado Kim,

Con fecha jueves, 10 de febrero de 2011, 19:24:45, escribió:

> After editing many years at Wikipedia, I think the most problematic 
> aspect of the system is that all user guidelines are on behavior. If you
> have a problem editor who stays within the rules, they can and will keep
> going and going on content issues till they win. And unless they break
> some behavior rule, this can go on forever, especially in controversial
> areas. What I want to say here is that man generally are far more likely
> to keep pushinga dn pushing till they have their way content wise.

> If we are serious about fixing this issue, the focus needs to shift from
> behavior to content. I am not going to hit the hottest button of all, 
> but we need a way to reign in content warriors by providing a way to 
> resolve content disputes without having to wait till one of the parties
> violates a behavioral policy. By the time they start violating those, 
> most women have left already.

> Do others share this observation?

> Kim





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