Jimmy Wales wrote:
I think almost everyone can support these ideas, because they are "softer" options than what we have now.
- per-article bans
- edit throttles for problem users
Definitely. Some people are only problematic on a very few articles, and even more commonly some people are problematic only primarily because of their vast amounts of free time. We can handle non-neutral content from non-belligerent participants, but it's difficult to handle a veritable flood of it across hundreds of pages and thousands of edits, which is what leads to exasperated people just reverting anything from that person rather than tediously salvaging and rewording it.
-Mark