Fred Bauder wrote:
On Jun 22, 2006, at 8:12 AM, Jimmy Wales wrote:
Will we have to sit through watching some troll
be successively banned
from one action after another as people cry "Why prevent him from
editing articles about Chemotherapy? All he was doing was uploding
goatse to articles on homosexuality? He might be a good user."
You exaggerate.
Fair enough. I was making an extravagant example. But really, I find
it fairly rare that a person who uploads repeated copyvios after being
warned would also somehow miraculously be of value to us in other ways.
We are no longer a struggling tiny project which needs to go out of our
way to get every possible beneficial scrap of work from anyone. We seek
to have diverse participation from a wide range of people with different
viewpoints, but we should also remember, always, how many good users we
use when we are too "co-dependent" with our trolls.
--Jimbo
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