[WikiEN-l] Complicity in hoaxing - how to proceed?

Fri Dec 24 10:45:55 UTC 2004

Cool Hand Luke wrote

>All of this is
> completely baffling to me.
>
> But we can't ban someone for making "bad votes", even if they _are_
> misleading editors, right?

I could speculate on the motivation of someone who had a beef about 'soft'
content, and also wished to make a point about the lack of rigour in
attending to the validity of supposed 'hard' content.

Sticking to the facts, defending hoax material knowingly is a pretty serious
charge.  It is also an attack on the Assume Good Faith principle, if the
motivation is to create more of a climate of suspicion.  I say that this is
one of the things the community in no way needs.

Charles