[WikiEN-l] Cheese Dreams/proposal for a *new* policy

Nicholas Knight nknight at runawaynet.com
Sun Feb 6 05:18:31 UTC 2005


geni wrote:
>>What choice do we have? There's no other effective way to block abusive
>>users on dialups if the ISP won't get rid of them.
> 
> 
> We handeled Mr treason. Remeber articles can be reverted and deleted
> faster than they can be created

And people are going to get sick of dealing with it. Some already have.

>>I don't think anyone will blame us for trying to maintain the integrity
>>of an encyclopedia without running everyone off.
> 
> 
> Are we using the same internet here? You are propsing to block vast
> numbers of people from editing due to the crimes of a few and you
> don't think people will blame you?

Two choices:

1) Collateral damage.

2) Worthless encyclopedia.

Anyone that blames us for choosing the first over the second is not 
worth worrying about.



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