Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-1713281-20130730145643/@comment-10473115-20150628213512

I really like the term "Laissez-faire users" which describes the situation perfectly. I also think that a block of a few days is many times the only way to get their attention. However, I don't think that mandatory answering could or should be in the rules. Although I understand that it's almost impossible to be a good editor without discussing things, member can still be valuable if he understands the rules. I see the blocking as a way to protect our site from unwanted edits and if a user don't respond and keeps violating our policies, what else could be done. Of course it's important to phrase the message with a block so that they understand that it's not for punishment and they are welcomed back as soon as they acknowledge the rules. That lessens the drama involving the blocks and keeps our site more newcomer friendly. And if a user don't respond and keeps doing "his/her thing" after the initial block, or if a user tells that the rules don't apply to him, no matter how "valuable" or experienced that user is, block has to be infinite.

Things get muddier if the user promises that the edits will be within policies but still don't do that. I guess it has to be case-by-case basis. It would be great if our discussion could be turned into a dedicated forum thread open to all members and a written blocking policy. I'm too inexperienced and have too little interest at the moment to lead that, but as a new admin, I really could use one.

That other thing about fan grids and alignments, I was also little unsure should it be highlighted but ultimately decided that we don't have too many discussions going on, so I dared to spam everybody. I don't believe neither that users who like to play with those things, will want to debate about it nor have any valid enough reasons to keep doing that but I fear more about someone who notices it afterwards and takes a personal exception that his toy has been taken away. Speak now or forever hold you peace might help in that (although in wiki environment we could come back it sooner or later). And you never know what happens in an open discussion, maybe somebody could convince us otherwise. I feel like we should give a discussion one week more time and if consensus is still to get rid of those, we'll start to figure how.