On 1/4/06, Anthony DiPierro <wikilegal(a)inbox.org> wrote:
On 1/4/06, Stan Shebs <shebs(a)apple.com> wrote:
Knowing more about other editors has always
helped me working with
them, so there's at least one counter-datapoint. For instance, I
found trying to reason with Wik to be very difficult because nobody
knew anything about him, and so we couldn't figure out whether he
was stubborn on principle, extremely immature, mentally ill, or what.
I seem to recall something to the effect of "please create a user
account so we know who we're talking to" being written on a lot of IP
address talk pages, too.
This may have more to do with the difficulty of memorizing sequences
of numbers. If someone gets a named account it doesn't give you any
more information about them.
On Wik, well what matters is the behavior. I don't think anyone knows
anything much about maoririder, but his behavior strongly suggests a a
capacity to learn and improve, with a personality that does not react
well to attempts at coercion. This isn't difficult to figure out,
and is strongly supported by the marked *decline* in maoririder's
skills after he was blocked. He had, in effect, been taught that it
was pointless to make efforts to improve.