Folks,
This is my first post here, so I'm sorry that it is on
such an unfortunate topic, but I wanted to suggest an
alternative approach to the users who have been
involved with J.R.R. Trollkien and other users with
'troll' in the name.
It seems to me that by continuing to ban, block, hold
hearings about etc, that we are feeding trollish
behavior. The recent banning of one user for
'disruptive edits' or something like that in
particular, while I can understand the sentiment,
leaves us open to a double standard - I have seen many
other users exhibit much more disruptive edits.
I would suggest that we stop creating a lot of light
and noise about this, and deal with behavior when / if
it becomes a problem. Above all, don't needlessly feed
the trolls - creating rules like 'no usernames with
the word troll in them' seems gaurunteed to spur
trolls to find the limit of this eg anagrams, words
containing 'troll', synonyms etc - I'm pretty sure the
novelty of it would wear off if people ignored them.
My two cents.
Mark
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