On Jun 4, 2006, at 1:49 PM, Steve Summit wrote:
Unfortunately, no matter how polite we are about it,
it's going
to keep getting harder to get rid of the maniacs, now that
Wikipedia has gotten Big and Significant. Once upon a time, if
you were a maniac who had been raking muck on Wikipedia but got
blocked or banned, you probably didn't care so much; there were
plenty of other equally interesting sites on the 'net where you
could stalk off to torment instead. Today, however, although the
"plenty of other interesting sites on the 'net" are all still
there, they're no longer as equally interesting; Wikipedia is
now much, much more interesting. If you're a POV-pusher with a
vengeance, you're not content to just go and push your POV
somewhere else; it's vital that you find ways to keep pushing it
*on Wikipedia*, since your potential audience is so much bigger.
... and that is why those to whom we need to override "our desperate
urge to choke the living shit out of [them]", not only want to raise
a racket outside WP and engage in personal attacks against our
editors, they also want at the same time to continue attempting to
push their POV, expecting we treat them with respect and accept their
edits in good faith!
-- Jossi