On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 11:56:35 -0800, "George Herbert" george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
Having them is just an indicator of the scope of Wikipedia; if you look back at all the prior Internet interactive projects of note, they have all attracted malcontents of various sorts over time. Success attracts them.
For sure, yes.
The question is what is done about it. The best solution I saw was benign dictatorships where someone in power just booted troublemakers, and was trusted by the rest to not boot good guys, and where social pressure functioned and kept good guys having really bad days from becoming troublemakers requiring the boot.
Sadly that does not scale, We now have a thousand of these individuals, and hence the thread :-)
Guy (JzG)