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

[Rebecca]

Surely there's got to be some distinction here between users who are
here to fight, and users who, while they may have some problems
relating to other users, are generally good. There's a couple of
people I deal with regularly who are immensely rude - but there's no
way I'd want them banned, because they write excellent articles.

By the same token, however - it's absolutely insane to give unlimited
tolerance to people who aren't just "unpopular", but contribute
absolutely nothing to the site, apart from having articles protected
and driving good contributors up the wall.

-- ambi


> 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