mapellegrini(a)comcast.net wrote:
My thought was - why not give all admins discretionary
authority
to temp-ban (for 24 hours) anyone who violates the three revert
rule? It would give the rule some teeth, and it would keep the
quickpolls relatively uncluttered (which was the biggest complaint
- that they were being used frivilously).
Why not restrict the start of QuickPolls to sysops? That is, the rule
can be that you can't start a QuickPoll for little reasons, and this
is much easier to enforce if we say that QuickPolls are to be started
by sysops. Sysops have been around long enough to know the ropes.
This would keep there from being too many frivolous quickpolls, but
would not require the one thing that I keep resisting strongly --
individual discretionary authority, which is too easy to abuse, but
not only that gives grounds for people to raise holy hell about
discreationary abuse even when it doesn't exist.
It's easy to say "Waaah, Erik did something mean to me." It's a lot
harder to (convincingly) say "Waaah, 80% of the voters did something
mean to me."
I share the concerns that have been raised about the problem of
quickpolls being used as popularity contests, such that the results
for different people who do the same thing are different. That's not
good.
At least when I was dictator, I was consistent in the sense of
consistently letting people get away with just about anything. :-)
--Jimbo