The Cunctator wrote:
On 3/9/04 6:25 PM, "Stan Shebs" shebs@apple.com wrote:
And your idea is? Ed is right, there are an amazing number of vandals out there, and they seem to have not the slightest hesitation in doing violence to us 24 hours a day.
It doesn't amaze me. The insistence on figuring out ever-more complex and punitive strategies to deter juvenile behavior leads inevitably to a ramping up of that behavior. The whole "vandal" label is, as I've said before, not helpful.
There are people who have no idea that Wikipedia even *has* "complex and punitive strategies" for anything - they see that they can click on a button to edit and another to save, and they'll do it just because they can. I just don't see how these people are somehow being magically encouraged by things they don't even know about. And why would they care how they're being labelled? I'm fixing the vandalism hours or days after the perpetrators are gone.
Stan