On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Andrew Gray <andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk>wrote:
> You can see the results we've had: viz, not a lot. It's not like we > can put our foot down and say "play nice, now, guys" and things get > better. If we could solve this problem easily, we'd have done it years > ago. To be fair - we're playing really nice with offenders, rather than playing nasty hardball. We could politely play nasty hardball, and squash a few people under our polite polished jackboots of propriety. It wouldn't necessarily be a self-contradiction to use excessive force to try and impose politeness. That said, the ultimate problem is community interaction issues that incivility and abuse cause, and abusive admin responses make *that* worse even if we help the incivility problem, so it's probably not a wise approach. That said, making more of the civility blocks stick would be helpful. The sense of the community that some of the problematic contributors are more worth having than asking to leave is probably a mistake. -- -george william herbert george.herb...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
