[Wikipedia-l] I'm seeing a trend here or How to keep drivingaway good contributors

[The Cunctator]

On 10/24/02 6:27 PM, "Poor, Edmund W" <Edmund.W.Poor at abc.com> wrote:

> Mark, 
> 
> Are you saying that rather than (A) banning jerks, we should rather (B) simply
> revert their "work" and drive on without them?
>
> If so, this sort of combines what Jimbo had said before about just letting
> them have their way for a day -- with the anarchists ideal of "not exercising
> power". 
> 
> But do you think edit wars won't mushroom out of control? Should I go back,
> say, 15 edits ago (to yesterday's "clean" version) and edit that? I can't
> figure out whether that's bending over to accommodate anti-social behavior --
> or that's anti-social in itself.
> 
One approach is go back to the "clean" version and then incorporate edits
from the later versions that have value into that. It's an effective method,
and not anti-social.