> George Herbert <george.herb...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Civility, or more properly abusive editors, is not a petty problem. If I >> had Jimbo's God-Emperor powers several existing WP users would be walked out >> the door and invited to not come back, on the grounds that they are >> persistently abusive and disruptive to other users. Even being a long time >> positive contributor cannot overcome the damage done to the community and >> other editors in particular when one problem abusive user persists. The >> damage is both severe in the acute sense and insidious in the long term >> community values sense. > > on 2/5/09 6:44 PM, Jesse (Pathoschild) at pathosch...@gmail.com wrote:
> I disagree that divine intervention is a solution, but I agree with > the principle that a productive editor who cannot collaborate is not a > productive editor. Perhaps you and others can take a look at < > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Collaboration_first >, and put > together a convincing essay to that effect. > Convincing the silent > majority to take a cohesive stance against such behaviour is one > possible solution. Absolutely, Jesse. Confront it every time you encounter it. This may be the most important - and most effective - solution to the problem. The remaining problem is how to convince that silent majority that their silence is also a part of the problem. Marc _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
