Oliver Pereira wrote:
However, I still think that reverting someone's edits for any reason other than the quality of the edits themselves is counter-productive.
Usually, yes, I think you're right.
Couldn't there be a list of offensive user names in the system somewhere, and a mechanism to prevent people from signing in under these names? That way, any user who makes valuable contributions can still do so anonymously, or they can get a new name that isn't on the disallowed list, and everyone's happy(ish)!
Well, such a list will always be incomplete. And pattern matching will lead to funny results. So automating the determination of what's offensive is not likely to be very effective.
"ThrobbingMonsterCock" -- hmm, we might ban 'Cock'. But what about someone named "Cockburn"?
I've basically declared open season on these things, so there's not going to need to be a lot of mailing list discussion about them, except when something odd happens, as is bound to be the case sooner or later.
--Jimbo