On 10/09/2007, RLS evendell@gmail.com wrote:
On 9/10/07, Anirudh anirudhsbh@gmail.com wrote:
I think people tend to take more liberty over online social forums on the internet. Wikipedia, as an active community of users can be compared to such websites in more than one ways. And in no way, their "assholery" or misdeeds should be advertised on the internet by making them available in public archives.
It lends a bad name to the project as a whole, and dissuades active and valuable participants to spend their energies building the project. Not everyone can be expected to be on their best online. Please don't give them something that they'd regret later.
I don't see why a valuable and active participant would be discouraged by the fact that bans and behavior records are publicly available. The type of contributor we want to keep around won't be doing anything that they wouldn't want others to be able to see. That is to say, if they're doing something that would result in an action hidden by the type of non-disclosure you're advocating, then they've already demonstrated a lack of valuable behavior.
--Darkwind
When the Wikipaedia community will jump down the throat of someone who has dedicated years to being the model of neutrality and helpfullness when a minor newbie mistake gets noticed years after the fact, resulting in a big huge RfC and BLP-ignorant article on said person....
When Wikipaedia outs people in the course of sockpuppetry and conflict of interest investigations which, while often right, are probabalistic and therefore sometimes wrong....
When someone who has been hurt in the past and therefore feels the need for privacy is assumed to be hiding something he or she has done wrong....
When, in the course of dispute resolution, the community talks only about what you did wrong and never about what you did right....