<DIV>Unfortunately, there are far too many people on Wikipedia (most of whom do little actual editing of articles) who are more concerned about giving the trolls the right to troll and vandalize, and will attack and try to get banned those of us actually out to make an Encyclopedia instead of a trollopedia.</DIV>
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<DIV>RickK<BR><BR><B><I>Mark Richards <marich712000@yahoo.com></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Hang on a second, I thought vandals were easy to deal<BR>with? Revert, ban if necessary, done. The problem is<BR>users who have not vandalised anything, but seek to<BR>engage in endlessly convoluted arguments with anyone<BR>who will play. Unfortunately, if you play, you have<BR>lost already.<BR>If the troll vandalises, ban him immediately. If not,<BR>don't feed him.<BR>Mark<BR><BR>--- Christopher Mahan <CHRIS_MAHAN@YAHOO.COM>wrote:<BR>> On Usenet or any of many online forums, trolls can<BR>> be ignored (not<BR>> fed) and they mostly disappear. On wikipedia, they<BR>> escalate their<BR>> vandalism, learning ever-sneakier ways of damaging<BR>> articles that<BR>> people have spend countless hours of their precious<BR>> time crafting.<BR>> <BR>> Ignoring a troll on wikipedia is the worst thing you<BR>> could possibly<BR>> do, since it will bite you in
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