Caroline Ford <caroline(a)secretlondon.me.uk> writes:
It's far too open to abuse. There is an element of
popularity contest about
it. No-one seems to object to banning unpopular users.
The question is *why* are those people unpopular.
You have opinions which are undoubtedly unpopular with many wikipedians, but
I've not seen calls for your banning because you express those within the
confines of norms of Wikipedia behaviour.
No-one called for RK to be banned, until he started hurling abuse at people,
even though he was in in frequent disagreement with people from the other side
of the Israeli-Palestine conflict.
The present set of people are being banned *not* because they have
unpopular opinions, but because they behave in an antisocial manner,
and refuse to cooperate with others.
--
Gareth Owen
I'm very enamoured of the idea of meta-content markup ...
there are a lot of cool possibilities. But we should be reluctant to tamper
much with a system that totally works in an amazing way. -- Jimmy Wales