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.
--Anirudh
On 9/10/07, Matthew Brown morven@gmail.com wrote:
On 9/9/07, Armed Blowfish diodontida.armata@googlemail.com wrote:
All banned users are assholes all of the sudden?
Not necessarily, but unless our ban of them was mistaken, there was a reason to ban them. This was generally connected to their behavior on the project.
I see no reason why that behavior should not, in general, be documented and indeed searchable. I'm not in the business of enabling antisocial behavior by ensuring lack of consequences.
-Matt
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