[WikiEN-l] Re: Cool Off Ban

Mon Oct 6 23:05:12 UTC 2003

>>> Regarding temporary bans
>
>As a dictator elsewhere I've found them to be very useful as a way of
>setting limits without the problems a long term ban causes. They are a
>useful reminder that the rules will be enforced, if necessary.
>
>The abuse problem can be handled by:
>o a five times as long ban for anyone who is found by a majority of some
>group to have acted in a partisan way, doubling each time it happens
>within a 30 day period.
>o a six month prohibition on editing the articles over which the first ban
>was inppropriately applied or any articles linking to them at the time of
>the ban.
>
>That should give partisans cause to think twice.

I think it just gives them a weapon.

Fred