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That is, we can take immediate action against the user if they post repeatedly with their sig, and the earlier quote I provided makes it clear that we can take immediate action against sigs that "impair the operation of the wiki" (not to mention perma-banning the user too). So, the week-long period is not an opportunity for someone to hold the wiki hostage for a week until they're forced to revert the changes, nor does the existing policy preclude others from taking action. It merely prevents them from punishing the user immediately in ''some'' circumstances. Making that clearer would address more of the issues we've dealt with over the years with the signature policy. {{User:Aichon/Signature}} 20:33, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
That is, we can take immediate action against the user if they post repeatedly with their sig, and the earlier quote I provided makes it clear that we can take immediate action against sigs that "impair the operation of the wiki" (not to mention perma-banning the user too). So, the week-long period is not an opportunity for someone to hold the wiki hostage for a week until they're forced to revert the changes, nor does the existing policy preclude others from taking action. It merely prevents them from punishing the user immediately in ''some'' circumstances. Making that clearer would address more of the issues we've dealt with over the years with the signature policy. {{User:Aichon/Signature}} 20:33, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
:Isn't pretty much all of that already clear from the text as it stands? It seemed that way to me. {{User:Bob Moncrief/Sig}} 21:16, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
:Isn't pretty much all of that already clear from the text as it stands? It seemed that way to me. {{User:Bob Moncrief/Sig}} 21:16, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
::Given all of the talk over at Rev's page right now and in the previous instances of problems we've had in the past, very much so not, apparently. {{User:Aichon/Signature}} 21:33, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

Revision as of 21:33, 5 October 2015

This policy proposal was prompted by User:Revenant's latest signature, which uses extensive vertical lines of characters which cover significant portions of whatever page the signature is transcluded on. For prior discussion on this signature, see here. Hat tip to User:Spiderzed for the initial wording.

Discussion on this policy should occur below.

Luke's gud

Get it to voting already. -- Spiderzed 18:56, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

Technically, policies are supposed to be open for discussion for three days before voting can begin. Bob Moncrief EBDW! 19:03, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

I'd support it, but...

From the original policy:

If a signature or template is changed in such a way as to seriously impair the operation of the wiki, the damage may immediately be reverted, or deleted if necessary, and the user who performed the alteration will be perma-banned with no questions asked.

Given that the whole point of the wiki is to be a resource that we can read, obstructing the ability to read the wiki seems like something that falls under that provision already. I'm okay with the proposed change, but I'm just not convinced it's necessary.

If anything, I'd suggest adding clarification regarding the one week warning period if we're talking about changes to the sig policy. There's a broad misconception that we can't act on a bad signature until the week-long warning period is up, when it's clear from historical comments and even other parts of the policy that that was not the intent. Rather, the intent was to give someone a one-week grace period before bad faith was assumed (i.e. don't assume that their very first post with a bad sig was intended in bad faith), but the policy itself says

If a user repeats such actions then the initial warning can be skipped and the vandalism case can be brought forth immediately.

That is, we can take immediate action against the user if they post repeatedly with their sig, and the earlier quote I provided makes it clear that we can take immediate action against sigs that "impair the operation of the wiki" (not to mention perma-banning the user too). So, the week-long period is not an opportunity for someone to hold the wiki hostage for a week until they're forced to revert the changes, nor does the existing policy preclude others from taking action. It merely prevents them from punishing the user immediately in some circumstances. Making that clearer would address more of the issues we've dealt with over the years with the signature policy. Aichon 20:33, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

Isn't pretty much all of that already clear from the text as it stands? It seemed that way to me. Bob Moncrief EBDW! 21:16, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
Given all of the talk over at Rev's page right now and in the previous instances of problems we've had in the past, very much so not, apparently. Aichon 21:33, 5 October 2015 (UTC)