On 9/10/07, Anirudh <anirudhsbh(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I think people tend to take more liberty over online
social forums on the
internet. Wikipedia, as an active community of users can be compared to such
websites in more than one ways. And in no way, their "assholery" or misdeeds
should be advertised on the internet by making them available in public
archives.
It lends a bad name to the project as a whole, and dissuades active and
valuable participants to spend their energies building the project. Not
everyone can be expected to be on their best online. Please don't give them
something that they'd regret later.
I don't see why a valuable and active participant would be discouraged
by the fact that bans and behavior records are publicly available.
The type of contributor we want to keep around won't be doing anything
that they wouldn't want others to be able to see. That is to say, if
they're doing something that would result in an action hidden by the
type of non-disclosure you're advocating, then they've already
demonstrated a lack of valuable behavior.
--Darkwind