[WikiEN-l] Ban Palestinian liberator immediately

Jimmy Wales jwales at bomis.com
Tue Aug 5 17:58:28 UTC 2003


Erik Moeller wrote:
> Jimmy-
> > I'm convinced.  Palestinian liberator is to be banned.  Can someone
> > take care of this for me?
> 
> No problem, but how about using the "revert all the bad edits of this user  
> on sight" strategy instead of the "ban this specific pseudonym of this  
> user" strategy as an experiment in this case? The latter strategy seems to  
> contribute to the proliferation of fake identities which need re-banning  
> and re-banning.

If I'm not too late on this, then yes, I certainly approve of us
experimenting with this strategy.  That's a good idea.  Based on past
experience, there is a certain class of problem user whom we seem to
only inspire to ever greater heights of problems.

--Jimbo



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