[WikiEN-l] Tracking banned user Andrew Morrow

Thu Feb 16 14:04:06 UTC 2006

From: "Steve Bennett" <stevage at gmail.com>
To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at wikipedia.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 11:48 AM

> That's depraved and not even troll-like behaviour. I understand the
> basic motivation of a troll to be like a baby with a saucepan - small
> amount of action (banging saucepan, or asking an inflammatory
> question) produces a large action (noise/attention from family, or
> massive flamewar). For a troll to actually create large numbers of
> good edits, which are then reverted with a couple of clicks (presuming
> that's possible) is the total opposite: large amount of action for
> very quick and easy reaction. Who would bother?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Paulo_Fontaine

Guy