On Jan 10, 2008 10:58 AM, Majorly axel9891@googlemail.com wrote: [snip]
Blocking is not the way to solve it.
Yea, if we used blocking to deal with people who refuse to behave correctly then we wouldn't have per user/per page word bans, per user protection, admin delegated upload rights, page move, and template editing rights.
Just using blocking to throw out bad people would clearly break our established practice of admin micromanagement of every user action.
And your idea doesn't remove the idea of a "clique" - your idea is "innocent until proven guilty" approach - but as we've seen, it simply wouldn't work.
Right! If we followed his idea we'd have a website that everyone could edit. That could never work. At all. Nope. Here at Wikipedia we make everyone go through an approval process before they can edit. Good thing we have a special editorial group selected for their ability to choose others.
(Not that I'm opposed to the idea of having (more) user assigned user rights ... but for rollback when even anons get undo? come on!)