User talk:Hersfold/Archive 71 (November 2012)

poorly done
Awarding a barnstar to an admin for taunting a recently blocked user just stripped off the rollback privilege? I'm sure it wasn't "humorous" to the target of the invective, and I'm certainly not seeing any humor myself. Admin actions should act to improve the encyclopedia. What lesson will the blocked user learn from Ks0stm's actions? How do you think he's going to feel toward Wikipedia in general and administrators specifically? Seeing the taunting from an immature admin is one thing, but having a member of the Arbitration Committee endorse it is highly disappointing. Nobody Ent 23:13, 1 November 2012 (UTC)


 * I explained my reasoning further down on Ks0stm's page. While I can understand how it would be seen another way, I recognize that taunting was not his intention and thought that his attempt to diffuse the situation had merit, even if it proved ineffective. Hers fold  (t/a/c) 03:05, 2 November 2012 (UTC)

User talk:Hell2theyeahh
I had reason to warn the above user for vandalism and noticed that no-one had welcomed them yet. Since you are rather good at that sort of thing, I thought you may like to know. regards Op47 (talk) 21:56, 6 November 2012 (UTC)

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CRM system for the Arb mailing lists
You mentioned plans for a CRM system for the Arb mailing lists. Do you know if the system will prevent a reader from copy and pasting the contents of an email they can read? If it simply records forwards, it would be too easy to circumvent if copy-paste is allowed. I know my company had such a system, I thought it would be easy to circumvent with a screen shot, but that was disabled, although I suspect a real savvy person could find a way around it. (At a minimum I guess an external camera couldn't be prevented.) That said, I haven't seen it used for a couple years, so not sure whether it was dropped because it had vulnerabilities, or not used for some other reason.-- SPhilbrick (Talk)  17:20, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
 * "However, no system we use will be able to prevent the copying and pasting or simple transcription of information, which does seem to be what happened here." It would appear the new system will not have those protections.  MBisanz  talk 17:31, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the response (and apologies for missing that my question was answered in the original; I followed the link, and failed to read the end of the post). I hope the choice will be determined on other factors, as the security aspect seems to be nonexistent. I understand nothing can prevent transcription, but in my own case, that would be an effective bar for anything longer than a sentence :) -- SPhilbrick (Talk)  17:58, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Yeah, there's no way to avoid copy/paste, transcription, screen shotting, taking a picture with a camera... there's all sorts of ways someone could leak info if they really wanted to, and no system on earth can prevent that. Hers fold  (t/a/c) 00:45, 27 November 2012 (UTC)

Very belated thank you
I was doing some research on some socks and stumbled upon this from 2008. I was not very active then so I must have missed your arbcom Q&A at that time. I am impressed that you were able to decode two events that happened pretty much before your time as shown in the second section under "Questions regarding ArbCom issues", #14. Thank you. You summed it up well.--MONGO 03:26, 28 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Thank you. :-) Hers fold  (t/a/c) 00:23, 29 November 2012 (UTC)

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