[WikiEN-l] avoiding rule-boundedness

[Mark Gallagher]

G'day Steve,

> One huge thing to watch out for is when our policies end up
> hurting our responsible contributors more than the vandals
> and trolls they're supposed to protect us from.  If every new
> contributor is guilty until proven innocent of being a vandal,
> POV warrior, linkspammer, copyright violator, or non-notable
> vanity article pusher, we're going to turn off and drive away a
> lot of new contributors.  (The only way to make it worse would be
> if the process for proving yourself innocent involved following
> -- to an absolute T -- a bunch of elaborate policies which new
> contributors aren't likely to be aware of.)

You speak as if we don't already do this ...



-- 
Mark Gallagher
"Even potatoes have their bad days, Igor." --- Count Duckula