[WikiEN-l] Re: Wik's Vandal Bot

Thu Jun 17 19:56:32 UTC 2004

Why don't we adopt a methodology more like Britanica?
We could choose editors, who would be accountable to
us, then they could write articles that we'd be
pleased with, and we could control the final version?

Oh, I remember, because this is a WIKI!
Mark

--- Denni <dwindrim at shaw.ca> wrote:
> Some sites ask users to "sign" agreements related to
> their activities on
> the site and absolving the site owner of any damage
> the site may cause
> the user's computer or brain. I don't recall having
> to agree to anything
> when I first joined Wikipedia except to allow my
> work to be mercilessly
> edited should I choose to submit any. Had I signed
> an agreement to
> abstain from behavior that could be considered
> mischevious or
> detrimental to the safety of Wiki and its members,
> on the consequence
> of  (fill in here), then (a) I might be less
> inclined to launch vandal
> bots in the first place, and if I did then (b) all
> the yelling to
> lawyers I wanted to do would serve for nothing when
> I got banned for
> life.
> 
> The actions the bot took yesterday did not just
> affect Angela, Texture,
> and other users whose user pages were trashed, it
> affected a whole
> community. The letter replacements on Town Pump and
> cleanup were
> offensive to me, and the condition of the VfD page
> was such that I just
> refrained from participating.
> 
> When the action of one user has an impact such as
> this on an entire
> community, then there should be reasonable
> consequences. Certainly a
> hard ban, whether for three months or one year or
> life would not be
> inappropriate. It is time to kill the clowns.
> 
> Denni
> 
> 
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