[WikiEN-l] Abusive editors

Wed Mar 9 17:22:08 UTC 2005

Tom Haws said:
> Tony Sidaway wrote:
>
>>Some people have lower boiling points than
>>others and can easily be provoked.
>>
> This is not to my knowledge a terminal condition or a good excuse.  We
> can all learn to boil slowly and gently.  The message of the policy is
> clear.  "Take responsibility for your own temper."
>

Absolutely. I completely agree with this.

However I was pointing out that an undesired side-effect of enforcing "no
personal attacks" with blocking could be, paradoxically, to give some
people an incentive to provoke _more_ personal attacks.