<DIV>If a person drives other, equally (or more so) valuable users because of continued abuse, isn't that detrimental to the project?</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>RickK<BR><BR><B><I>Delirium <delirium@rufus.d2g.com></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Sascha Noyes wrote:<BR><BR>>So what you're saying is that you don't want to enforce [[Wikipedia:No <BR>>personal attacks]]. So who will enforce this rule? As I have stated before, <BR>>we should either enforce our rules or stop paying lipservice to them and <BR>>scrap them. <BR>> <BR>><BR>Well, I see a lot of our policies more as "you ought to do this" and <BR>"you ought not do this", rather than as "if you do (don't) do this you <BR>will be banned", which is a somewhat more strenuous pronouncement. Of <BR>course if we have no consequences the rules are meaningless, but I don't <BR>think we should be banning people simply for violating "the letter of <BR>the law", so to speak. Really we should only ban people who we've <BR>determined are highly detrimental to Wikipedia, combined with a <BR>determination that they're unlikely to change their behavior in the near
<BR>future. In my opinion, anyway.<BR><BR>-Mark<BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE><p><hr SIZE=1>
Do you Yahoo!?<br>
Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=21608/*http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/"><b>Try it!</b></a>