Fred Bauder wrote:
On Jun 22, 2006, at 8:12 AM, Jimmy Wales wrote:
Will we have to sit through watching some troll be successively banned from one action after another as people cry "Why prevent him from editing articles about Chemotherapy? All he was doing was uploding goatse to articles on homosexuality? He might be a good user."
You exaggerate.
Fair enough. I was making an extravagant example. But really, I find it fairly rare that a person who uploads repeated copyvios after being warned would also somehow miraculously be of value to us in other ways.
We are no longer a struggling tiny project which needs to go out of our way to get every possible beneficial scrap of work from anyone. We seek to have diverse participation from a wide range of people with different viewpoints, but we should also remember, always, how many good users we use when we are too "co-dependent" with our trolls.
--Jimbo