[WikiEN-l] Civility poll results

Emily Monroe bluecaliocean at me.com
Wed Aug 12 14:56:32 UTC 2009


>> I think the same thing applies to our civility policy.  If we want  
>> it to be respected, we have to start blocking people if they refer  
>> to another user as a "cunt", no matter what the provocation.
>
> Do this and you've suddenly made provocation a lot more profitable  
> for the provoker.

Like I said before, both the provoker and provokee need to be blocked.  
Prefrebly, the provoker would actually get a longer block, with less  
chances to "start over". We don't accept BAITing, after all.

Emily
On Aug 12, 2009, at 9:17 AM, Ken Arromdee wrote:

> On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, Surreptitiousness wrote:
>> I think the same thing applies to
>> our civility policy.  If we want it to be respected, we have to start
>> blocking people if they refer to another user as a "cunt", no matter
>> what the provocation.
>
> Do this and you've suddenly made provocation a lot more profitable  
> for the
> provoker.
>
> There's a reason why zero tolerance policies are considered unjust  
> in real
> life by just about everyone who's thought about them.
>
>
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