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Encourage contributors to use a "one offer only policy"

In an unfriendly environment, declare it a valuable (and therefore encouraged) behaviour to contribute once, then, in the face of harassment, leave the area and let others continue with editing and discussing

idea creator• Haraldmmueller

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created on20:41, 3 June 2016 (UTC)

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What is the problem you're trying to solve?

How can one who is appalled by language used in some WP comments still contribute and maintain a sense of "I have added value," but on the other hand keep emotionally healthy in a hostile-language area?

What is your solution?

Make it explicitly valued and encouraged that one can add one's knowledge (do an edit - "be courageous"), but then leave the area and let others - presumably more "discussion-stable" ("thick-skinned") - do the job of defending the correctness of the contribution.

Rationale: It is often the case that not one and the same person can contribute knowledge as well as defend the formulation of that knowledge in the face of unfounded and/or harassing attacks. So, make it an expliclty legitimate behaviour to do only one of these jobs, but not the other.

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