I agree, and am a little disturbed by a couple of recent bans I have seen. There may be good cause for them, but no explanation has been given to users who have asked for it. I think blocks and bans should be based solely on behavior (except in cases of obscene, blasphemous or personal attack names) and that there should be a forum where users can ask for explanations of bans and blocks and expect a reasonable response (ie more than 'Good - I hope you get banned too). Mark
--- Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Charles Matthews wrote:
"Ray Saintonge" wrote
It's not about "troll-culture"; (whatever that
is); it's about the right
to choose a name. The poisoned atmosphere comes
the self-righteous
crowd that goes around making all these petty
complaints.
If you don't _know_ troll-culture, that would be a
bit of a
disqualification?
No right to choose an in-your-face-name. What has
that to do with writing
an encyclopedia?
That last point is the important one. If someone chooses an in-your-face name I am not likely to complain about the name, but I admit that I will look at his edits more critically than if he had chosen something less controversial. If his edits are consistently fair and satisfactory I will eventually ignore the name, and no-one will have noticed how much scrutiny I have applied to those edits.
Ec
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