On 13/09/2007, Matthew Brown morven@gmail.com wrote:
On 9/13/07, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
Fine, but where do you draw the line, or don't you draw one at all? Protecting the privacy of sex offenders convicted of violent felonies goes too far, in my opinion.
We aren't a sex offender registry, though.
-Matt
Maybe, but the 'but he deserves to suffer because he is a horrible horrible person!' argument does apply better to violent sex offenders than it does to run-of-the-mill Wikipaedia defacers, black-hat SEOs, people promoting certain ideologies, and the merely annoying.
Still, an eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth makes the whole world blind and toothless, so whether the person is a violent serial child rapist or simply an annoying link- spammer, using Wikipaedia's Google rankings for vengeance isn't a good idea.