geni (geniice@gmail.com) [050120 04:50]:
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 04:40:37 +1100, David Gerard fun@thingy.apana.org.au wrote:
Is there anyone on this list with serious objections to short (12hr or 24hr) blocks for personal abuse? I'd like to see what can be done about the objections to the idea, with the hope of getting it through again.
Yes personal abuse is seriously subective and (like all these policies) has no effect on anons from AOL
Here's the policy:
How would you tighten it up to make it less seriously subjective?
I'm focusing on this area because (a) it really gets up my nose (b) personal attacks drive away quite a lot of good contributors (c) almost every case of an editor going rogue in other ways has had a heaping of personal attacks in there as well.
"No personal attacks" is official Wikipedia policy (it's up there with NPOV as one of the non-negotiable Wikipedia policies) and the ArbCom has repeatedly affirmed it as a principle. But it could clearly do with teeth *before* hitting arbitration. What needs to be clarified to make it less subjective?
- d.