On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 04:37 -0600, Daniel Cannon wrote:
Most definitely. The concern with Diebold is that they
were editing in a
manner that showed an obvious conflict of interest. While a block isn't
really going to do anything to stop this in the future--the IP has been
inactive for months, and after all of this, Diebold will probably block
all its employees from Wikipedia--yet it gives the impression that we're
doing something about it :) As you said, they'll be watching like
*snip*
I was under the impression that blocks are preventative, not punitive.
--
Slowking Man (
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