"Bryan Derksen" wrote
Kicking off 0.1% of Wikipedia's users isn't going to significantly reduce the pool of editors, and would reduce the stress for a significant portion of the 99.9% who remain. I don't see what these 1-in-1000 antisocials are contributing to Wikipedia that is worth it to endure the bad atmosphere they generate for everyone else.
Well, I think that's the debate really. If it was uncontroversial who they were, and that a surgical removal was possible without splitting the community, they would be banned quite quickly.
Charles