Posted by thuso on January 10, 2006, at 17:39:31
In reply to Oh. Thanks. (nm) » Tabitha, posted by pseudoname on January 10, 2006, at 11:48:03
Wow! It's been really hard keeping my mouth shut in all of this because I have very few nice things to say about the situation. Be that as it may, after reading some of the posts in Admin about the block and how "unfair" it is...I have an idea that I like.
Right now the blocking structure is very straight forward with not much flexibility. A lot of people seem to think that the 6 weeks was way too long for what Larry said. Has this site ever tried block lengths based on category of offenses? For example, not using and * would fall under Category A and being uncivil through a quote falls under Category B. Any offense that is listed under Category A would start off with a 1 week block (as usual), but if the poster later is uncivil with something in Category B they would again get a 1 week block because it is their first offense in a different category. The blocks would double (as usual) as a person continued to be uncivil within the same category. That way it allows someone to make a mistake without getting a huge block for doing something that isn't normally like them. It also allows you to have a category for more extreme offenses that can start with a 6 week block instead of a 1 week block.
I think a lot of incivility that happens on these boards can easily be categorized. This is also just another way to continue the idea of PBCs and blocks while allowing a poster room to make a mistake here and there.
After much google searching, I finally found a thread mentioning at least something similar. Phew! Unfortunately, it was never really discussed...
http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/admin/20050116/msgs/445511.html
poster:thuso
thread:596210
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/admin/20051205/msgs/597653.html