Actually I have said so. Folks who declare an intent to be disruptive will
reliably go on to be disruptive and damage will occur. There is no real need
to wait while they do their thing.
Fred
From: "Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales"
<jwales(a)wikia.com>
Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org>
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 23:09:17 -0700
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org>
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Where are all the trolls?
If so should trolls be banned without a hearing?
I don't see that anyone has ever seriously suggested such a thing. We
are well aware of many complex issues involved here.