Unfortunately, there are far too many people on Wikipedia (most of whom do little actual editing of articles) who are more concerned about giving the trolls the right to troll and vandalize, and will attack and try to get banned those of us actually out to make an Encyclopedia instead of a trollopedia.
RickK
Mark Richards <marich712000@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hang on a second, I thought vandals were easy to deal
with? Revert, ban if necessary, done. The problem is
users who have not vandalised anything, but seek to
engage in endlessly convoluted arguments with anyone
who will play. Unfortunately, if you play, you have
lost already.
If the troll vandalises, ban him immediately. If not,
don't feed him.
Mark
--- Christopher Mahan wrote:
> On Usenet or any of many online forums, trolls can
> be ignored (not
> fed) and they mostly disappear. On wikipedia, they
> escalate their
> vandalism, learning ever-sneakier ways of damaging
> articles that
> people have spend countless hours of their precious
> time crafting.
>
> Ignoring a troll on wikipedia is the worst thing you
> could possibly
> do, since it will bite you in
the proverbial bum.
>
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