[WikiEN-l] Re: Broken dispute resolution mechanisms (was Reithy is a problem)

[Fred Bauder]

Wik was not banned even in the end except for a short period.

Fred

> From: Delirium <delirium at hackish.org>
> Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 02:53:16 -0500
> To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Re: Broken dispute resolution mechanisms (was Reithy
> is a problem)
> 
> Tim Starling wrote:
> 
>> Thirdly, sentences should be much, much harsher. Ban them for life and
>> get it over with. Banning only slows them down anyway, most of them
>> will come back under a different name. But at least the community will
>> be able to unite behind the AC ruling.
> 
> I think the problem with this is that, if the community had its way, a
> lot of the best contributors would be banned if they were unpopular.  A
> site in which all unpopular users are banned is not really a wiki.  I'm
> personally quite glad that Wik was not banned the numerous times his
> case was brought up (until the last time, of course), and wouldn't want
> things to work otherwise.
> 
> Perhaps you have a different type of site in mind?
> 
> -Mark
> 
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