On 3/23/07, Denny Colt wikidenny@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/22/07, jayjg jayjg99@gmail.com wrote:
The merits aside, again... it's specifically for if we know its them
(they
announce it is them) or fits the standard form for a puppet/sock, why shouldn't they be nuked on sight?
They should be, to discourage banned editors from violating their bans. It takes some pretty bad behavior to warrant a banning on Wikipedia, and a great deal of effort to get a ban.
Exactly, thats why I posted this... it seemed like some editors were/are determined to give Brandt and Scwartz free passes to post, even as Doc Glasgow posted, threatened to block anyone who removed comments from Brandt at one point... I also had people each time I redacted out Brandt's posts on the article talk page put in links BACK to his redacted comments.
Why do/should Brandt & Schwartz get free passes?
I've seen some people get really anal over this, and indeed I've seen some editors go to a lot of effort to revert good edits or article creations, even going so far as to label them "vandalism in progress", so long as they were by a banned editor they didn't like.
This sort of wikinazi behaviour does nothing to enhance our image; it's fodder for yet another round of articles poking fun at the community, and confirmation that Wikipedia is a place where silly power games are encouraged.