[WikiEN-l] Arbitration progress report #4

[Daniel Ehrenberg]

> > One idea I have is a ban for one day for each time
> the perp uses the
> > words "stupid", "trash" and "crap" to describe
> another's edit. This
> > could add up to a year or two for some of these
> folks.
> 
> I like the idea of short "time-out" bans. I
> suggested this a couple of
> years ago. Also, it seemed to work fairly well the
> time Erik M.
> (Eloquence) "banned" RK for just under 24 hours last
> year.
> 
> My experience is that time-outs work better than
> total bans. A ban is
> like death or torture: it satisfies one party's
> desire for revenge, but
> at a terrible cost (hint: think of how the other
> party feels, waking up
> dead or maimed...)
> 
> Kindly Ol' Uncle Ed

IIRC, the general concensus after that was that people
*shouldn't* do unilateral bans in the future and that
Erik should have consulted the list.

LDan

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