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I think that's an imponderable, isn't it, really? I mean, there's an emergent point where somebody during a discussion thinks "hang on, this is now sufficiently heavy that Tom needs to be notified". This time around that may have come slightly early, but, actually, I think not unreasonably early - Shadowsax, 33 and Modzero have presented us with some pretty clear models of behaviour that creates Tom-inviting situations. And each time the process actually took less time - getting rid of Modzero felt like it took a year or so, one way or another, but realistically probably took some months, Shadowsax's banning discussion was wrenching and unpleasant, but over in a week or so, and this one, I think, will be resolved one way or another in the fairly near future, and I suspect without too much subsequent heartache.
Tom - hypothetically, can I run a possibility past you? Would you be amenable to accepting a situation where, were PW to post again in the Policy, he would be immediately, no-if/no-buts banned, but could post elsewhere unless he started to use other fora in similar ways, in which case we could reopen this thread and turn it into a banning thread? PW's increasing problems seem to start around the point where, after the Bullying Thread, he starts to post compulsively to the policy, made monstrously, ineffably worse by the discussion of the use of patois in the discussions aroound Birthdaygate? Forcible exclusion from the Policy seems artificial, but it might be kinder, and it is not going to work on willpower alone...
More generally, and talking to Ganesh's point, Tom has said elsewhere that Cal is talking about returning to us and doing a bit of coding. Could we perhaps prioritise a discussion about using that coding time in the first instance to give some/all moderators intermediate powers? |
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