User blog:Schoolbus13/New tool to curve arguments, fights....

SFW has seen a truckload of arguments and brutal fights that have de-stabilized the wiki, one of which happened just last weekend. If we see more of these, no more SFW. The entire community will fall and split apart. Thus, I am making a new proposal for a new tool that admins will be able to use to stop fights/arguments.

What is "martial law"?
This wiki doesn't have a military. But hey, we have been attacked before.

Remember the troll wars last year and earlier this year? Well, trolls came to expose our vulnerability and attack SFW, emptying pages and replacing them with spam and hateful comments. We went on a banning spree. However, we have seen threats for more attacks in the past. You never know what could happen in the future.

Anyway, martial law is the imposition of military rule by military authorities over designated places on an emergency basis. Martial law is usually temporary.

So let me go through a few scenarios:

Troll attack: January 1, 2011
Let's assume that trolls attack this wiki on New Year's Day 2011. What do we do?

Current plan: Ban.
Currently, our only option is to ban trolls and/or vandals. Simple, really.

Plan B: Take control.

 * Step 1) User warns admins/other users about imminent or ongoing troll attack.
 * Step 2) Admin or Bureaucrat declares (by decree, AKA blog) martial law over a specific set of pages, or the whole site.
 * If site: Site is locked down for 12 hours (that's the max) to clean out trolls and pages.
 * If specific set of pages: Users are banned from editing the pages on lockdown, and admins furiously purge or revert those pages that have been hit by trolls.


 * In either case, trolls are indefinitely banned from the site.

It's not a foolproof system, but it's an interesting concept.