--- Steve Bennett <stevage(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Just a thought in the wake of the pedophile thing.
Could we agree
not to ever again block people for what they are? No matter how
disgusting, unpleasant, immoral etc. Such things always being at least
somewhat objective, we should stick instead to only blocking people
for actions.
I agree. For concreteness, I would mention [[User:LuxOfTKGL]]. I don't know how
valuable an editor he was, but his user page would seem to be an example of a
non-trolling self-declared pedophile.
There is a pragmatic argument: if we ban people on sight for admitting
extreme/objectionable views, then people will not admit those views, but will
edit anyway. It's much preferable that we know who these people are. We also
lose an editor, of course.
-- Matt
Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Matt_Crypto
Blog:
http://cipher-text.blogspot.com
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