Perhaps it should be noted that some admins force certain editors to become "trolls" through provoking, but it seems that no-one cares about the provoking part -- only about the other end that violates the policy of this-and-that. Many people, for instance, feel offended when they are being warned in public, on their talkpage. Most people, I believe, don't like to be given ultimatums. In my opinion, we should try to protect the integrity of the Wikipedian and have them warned in private. I also disagree with the block images that are added on talk- and user pages.
Further more, as I said above, I don't think that it's good to have admins that provoke editors only so that they can block them. And yes, there are such admins. Unfortunatelly, it seems that the people with authority (stewards and above) are most impressed by the work of the admins, instead of those who just want to edit articles.
Anittas
--- Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
charles matthews wrote:
The wikilawyers and trolls always want a codified
set of rules on an
issue, so they can subvert the spirit while
adhering to the letter.
Fortunately, percentagewise,they don't account for
a high proportion of
Wikipedians. Most people can get by with some
rough idea of what is
expected, and the realisation that the system is
relatively forgiving in
the case of good-faith mistakes. Do we codify
'relatively forgiving'?
Hell no.
I think this is extremely well put.
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