[WikiEN-l] Two simple steps to make me go away

Thu Jun 16 05:17:45 UTC 2005

--- Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 6/15/05, Sean Barrett <sean at epoptic.org> wrote:
> > Speaking as an arbiter (though not for the entire
> Committee, who are
> > quite capable of speaking for themselves), I
> support David's decision.
> > Ms. Halliwell will have to find another way to
> prove that she isn't a
> > puppeteer (puppetrix?).
> 
> But why should the burden be on the user?
> Can you prove that it's not you who really controls
> Ms. Halliwell?
> As you are well aware, there is no way for someone
> to prove they
> aren't... Even if they show up at a meetup with
> people claiming to be
> the other accounts it's always possible that they
> didn't start that
> way.
> 
> Lets save the blocks for users who won't discuss and
> compromise, and
> save the protects for quelling active revert wars
> until a decision is
> made on the talk pages.. Votes made by people
> without a real
> contribution history should be discounted
> accordingly, sockpuppett or
> not.
> 
> We seem to spend a lot of time assigning huge
> importance to
> sockpuppets when we really can't do anything about
> it if the user is
> really trying... we shouldn't bother..
> 
> Oh I know, we'll have a wikisockpuppet test:
> We will send ninjas to go kill the suspected
> puppeteer, and if the
> socks never edit again we'll know we were right!

Bored now.  Off you go into my blocked addresses file.

RickK

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