2009/5/11 Oskar Sigvardsson oskarsigvardsson@gmail.com:
On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
I would hope RFA is good enough to weed out people stupid enough to respond to such things...
Hey, you wanna hear a really stupid thing *we* could do? The exact same thing! We write emails to a bunch of inactive admins, pretending to be disgruntled wikipedia-haters asking for their accounts, and if they bite, we ban and de-admin them! It would be like a sting! Or entrapment! Or something! We'd be like the Dirty Harry/Lethal Weapon/Archetypal-amoral-movie-cop of the internet!
Or not... whatever...
Yeah, that would be entrapment. I know of no Wikipedia policy banning entrapment, but it might not be the best idea ever...