[WikiEN-l] Abusive editors

Wed Mar 9 21:11:23 UTC 2005

Skyring said:
> On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 17:22:08 -0000 (GMT), Tony Sidaway
> <minorityreport at bluebottle.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> You are completely correct, but may I state (again) that this was not
> my intention.

Absolutely.  I want to dissociate myself from any implication that I could
be commenting on a concrete instance.  I'm just talking about the social
dynamics that I think should be taken into consideration in any proposal
to enforce "No personal attacks" by blocking.