On 13/11/2007, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
There's some truth in this, but I don't see much evidence that people are being actively banned just for holding a POV, only for disruptively asserting it. I guess our tolerance for pedophilia activism and holocaust denial is pretty low, but the average holocaust denier engages in unambiguously banworthy editing (they are usually not too subtle in their biases).
The problem is not the POV per se, it's the manner of POV-pushing. What we see is that POV-pushers from both fields just seem not to know how to behave like civilised humans in practice, not just theory. So the POV turns out to actually be a pretty reliable guide to "trouble ahead." Which is a bit of a pity for the pursuit of the purest of NPOV, though only about this much: http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Template:Boohoo
-d.