Forum:New forum proposal - "Heartless Manufactory"

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KrytenKoro - "That's when we bumped into Hannity. Sean Hannity. See the thing about this dude is, at first he's fair, right? And you're like "Wow!" But then BOOM. The dude's balanced, too. And you're like, HOLY SHIT." TALK - Or "Kingdom Hearts", but that would be a byotch on the categories. Anyway, we all know that we have a problem with getting personal-attacky in debates and edit comments, and I can definitely say that, as the biggest jerkass on the wiki, I'm hardly setting a good example. So, the proposal is basically like this: We institute a no-tolerance policy for personal attacks. Any personal attack, no matter the "seniority" of the editor in question or the "rightness" of their viewpoint, gets a warning. However, if you get a warning for a personal attack, you can choose to volunteer at the Heartless Manufactory with whoever you attacked. When you do so, a third editor (has to be registered, but otherwise can be anybody) chooses a needed task for you and the person you were fighting with to work on: creating a "wanted article", filling in the notes archives for one of the Projects, categorizing images, replacing image links, etc. Once you and the other editor complete this task, the warning is removed from your talk page, and for all intents and purposes it never happened. Basically, it's a "learn to appreciate each other OR go to jail" type of idea. And as the worst offender, I'll even do one with each person I've insulted in the past, if they want to. Thoughts?

The Inexistent - All the world's a puzzle, and I the one who made it so... TALK - EVIL has come... at last... I'm not for a long answer this time, so I'll just second it.

LapisScarab - You accept darkness, yet choose to live in the light. So why is it that you loathe us who teeter on the edge of nothing? We who were turned away by both light and dark - never given a choice? TALK - That may be... however, what other choice might we have had? Why not, better than just slapping people with wanings and pissing them off more. Quick question though. How would we define a "personal attack" exactly? Is it just being an ass to a user in general, or more specific?

Neumannz — ATTENTION, DUELISTS! If you could all stop staring at my hair for a moment... TALK — Those child-grabbing classes were worth every penny! — 00:44, 18 February 2011 (EST)   I'M THE EVIL PRISON WARDEN *ahem* Sounds like a sound idea to me. Makes more sense then "be nice or else", which is less effective for regular and prolific editors. And it'll finally give us an official way to remove warnings, which I don't believe we've had.