4:49 PM
@quid I understand the resistance of a mod to delete out of hand. However, to shelter an offensive user from consequences they would face and have faced for their rude and profane use of this site, to give them a slap on the hand, and let them "start over" with the PSq they started with, is in fact "sheltering" the user. Warning: Oops, you used a bad word: wrist-slap. But you can still get and answer to your PSQ and we have helped enabled you to get an answer by ...
deleting comments asking you to show context, or comments for clarification, and also your two rude responses in comments, in addition to the profane title you replaced the original title. So you, who will likely merely create a new account tomorrow, perhaps even today, will still be able to get someone to do your work for you."
Perhaps, @quid, or @DanielFischer, you should also have reviewed this user's previous PSQ's posted under the protection of status "New Contributor".
I've actually noticed an influx of "new contributors" in larger numbers than we had, say two weeks ago. Incentivizing users to keep creating new accounts to garner the benefits of being treated with "kid gloves" in all ways could (and likely will) lead to "unanticipated due to group think about how wonderful the concept is" backlash, as sites realize the damage it is doing to the quality of the site, report back, and site wide stats verify the rapid increase in "new" accounts since the point
... since the point at which "Directive: We must baby newbies, even though they are not babies, and even though they are no longer children" was implemented.
I have no doubt that moderators were given specific announcements designed for just them: "No one who is a new contributor, no matter how foul their language, no matter how poor their question, and no matter how obstinate they appear in response to helpful suggestions from other users, should face any consequences like most users here for more than a week might face...
Just fix their mistakes, and pretend they didn't happen, and when regular users see something awry (wrt before and after the offensive turned innocent post,) inform them that "any offensiveness has been handled by the mod team". Probably with a sub-warning which doesn't count as a warning: "That was naughty of you to say. Can you try harder to be a good little boy or a good little girl?"
Ii couldn't help but notice that the offending user was still under the "umbrella/sanctuary" given to "new contributors". I have already witnessed inflated vote counts, and more answers, given to "new contributors", just to "Be nice", as though "being nice" has become perverted to ...
