>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
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