User:Guerillero/Bobrayner's Law

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Bobrayner's Law states that:

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Mentoring is a bad investment decision: ${\displaystyle (P^{reform}*W^{lc})-(W^{supervision}+W^{mentor})<-W^{RBI}}$, where: ${\displaystyle P^{reform}}$ is the likelihood that mentoring actually works, ${\displaystyle W^{lc}}$ is the future good work done by [the person], ${\displaystyle W^{supervision}}$ is the time that people still spend looking over the reformed editor's shoulder, ${\displaystyle W^{mentor}}$ is the effort by the mentor, and ${\displaystyle W^{RBI}}$ is the ongoing effort of RBI in the no-change scenario. (And we treat the latter three Ws as negatives; they're time that good editors could spend doing something else instead)

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In plain english, bringing a banned editor back into the community is a bad decision when their potential contribution to the project (modified by the chance of them reforming their ways) is less than the amount of time need to supervise them. ${\displaystyle W^{RBI}}$ is assumed to be fairly close to zero.