It's noteworthy that they are not non-appealable blocks. I honestly don't think this is beyond the scope of the list, although it's certainly a depressing topic. Allowing severe gendered slurs to be bandied about with essentially no penalty is likely something that is going to decrease the participation of women on ENWP - which is not a good thing. I know there's been some debate in the past about whether or not ENWP specific issues are appropriate for this list, but I believe this is a large enough one to be.
Best, Kevin Gorman On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Daniel and Elizabeth Case < danc...@frontiernet.net> wrote: > > > >Eric Corbett is going to be under a new regimen of non-appealable > civility blocks under the aegis of Arbitration Enforcement. > > One wonders if it’s really time for someone to just initiate a discussion > on AN as to whether the community’s patience with him is exhausted enough > to community-ban him indefinitely, regardless of the outcome of any ArbCom > case. We have done things like this before—after one such editor prompted > multiple suggestions that he be banned among the many opposes he received > when he ran for ArbCom with the premise of effectively abolishing it by > voting against hearing any new cases, I initiated that discussion, which > led to the editor in question pretty much jumping before he was pushed. > > And I say this as someone who has never interacted with him in any > meaningful way, at least not for years, but sees and hears him increasingly > discussed as the *one* user who represents all the shortcomings of our > disciplinary processes. Whether he is a genuinely toxic person or not seems > to be a matter of some debate, but I think there is no doubt that the > perception that he is has increasingly mooted that question. > > Of course we could also consider the suggestion Jimmy had in his closing > speech at Wikimania this year that we deal with toxic people on the site > who also happen to be good content creators by giving them their own wikis > where they, and anyone who wanted to work with them, could develop and > improve whatever content they wanted to.for reimportation. Maybe part of > the problem is that we offer too limited a choice of > > (And per other emails, this is really beyond the scope of this list, so > any followups should probably directed to me personally or taken on-wiki. > Besides I don’t want to ruin anyone’s Thanksgiving, regardless of whether > you celebrate it or not—we all deserve a break). > > Daniel Case > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap > >
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