Posted by pseudoname on January 10, 2006, at 11:43:50
In reply to Re: Can we work together to figure out what to do? » Dinah, posted by James K on January 8, 2006, at 18:10:21
James K had a good idea
> The repeated posting seemed uncivil to me, and I wonder if this could have been addressed off-site
What if deputy administrators could administer a back-channel (Babble-mail) warning and a private MINI-BLOCK for just a few hours, right when the situation was heating up?
The private warning could be, "This thread seems to be heating up. Perhaps everyone could benefit by taking a breather for a short time."
Also, the DA could privately block the two parties for, say, 8 hours, with no public humiliation.
If it were technically possible (I know Bob likes to write code <wink>), maybe that thread could also be frozen to everyone else for several hours, also?
But even if we just had mini-blocks as preventive measures, that would be something deputy administrators could easily do. The blocked people might resent it ("We didn't do anything wrong!"), but there'd be a lot less controversy than letting things escalate to where serious violations and blocks occur.
Just one more idea.
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