8 votes is far too few, 18 or 24 might be more reasonable for what is likely to turn into a ban of several weeks at best.
Fred
From: Jimmy Wales jwales@bomis.com Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 16:11:17 -0700 To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Suggested implementation of Jimbo's quickpoll proposal
Delirium wrote:
I endorse this as a proposed experiment. Should we proceed? Are there any major objections to giving it a try for a few weeks?
We can monitor it and bail out of the experiment quickly if we find that it's out of control. But it might help a lot.
I'm fine with it, though I think perhaps there should be more stringent thresholds---a quick poll done with a handful of users and a moderate threshold is fine for a 24-hour ban, but if it's going to be a longer ban perhaps it should be a 2/3 or 3/4 threshold and some minimum number of votes?
The proposal was for an 80% threshold and a minimum of 8 votes. So, that's more stringent that what you mentioned already, right?
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