--- Delirium <delirium(a)rufus.d2g.com> wrote:
While I doubt that this idea will go anywhere, I
figured I'd weigh
in
against it anyway.
I'm listening.
First of all, the whole idea is somewhat ridiculous.
AOL is the
single
largest ISP in the United States, providing internet access to
millions
of people, including quite a few of our better contributors.
I'm with you so far.
Blocking
it would be incredibly counter-productive, and do far more damage
than
Michael could possibly do.
Arguably so.
It only takes one or two really tenacious little vandals to piss off
and demoralize many good contributors.
Furthermore, it is unlikely to receive
*any*
even remotely good publicity, regardless of what publicity blitz
you put
on. It will receive good publicity on slashdot, in NANAE, and
other
similar internet-zealot locations, but universally bad press
everywhere. Wikipedia will essentially be painted as an elitist
internet-zealot organization that doesn't allow common folk in,
while
we'd like to be painted as a bit more open than that.
Agreed.
..to allow sysops to ban logged-in users if they
are
currently on an AOL IP (then Michael could simply be banned by any
sysop
each time he pops up by clicking the "ban" button). However, even
this
I'd prefer not to have, given that other solutions are possible
(my preferred so far being extending rollback to
support rolling
back page moves).
That would be great, and it would be great regardless of Michael and AOL.
=====
Christopher Mahan
chris_mahan(a)yahoo.com
818.943.1850 cell
http://www.christophermahan.com/
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