On 7/6/06, BJörn Lindqvist bjourne@gmail.com wrote:
Why would we give automatic suffrage to folks who have not yet demonstrated a significant degree of support or even understanding of the goals of the project?
Because they are giving up their free time trying to help the project. That demonstrates their support.
Assume good faith does not demand we ignore the obvious.
A person with zero article edits is not giving their time to support the project, unless of course they explain otherwise.
We frequently have people come by to simply argue that their position must be supported by the project... they do this fully with good faith because, of course, their ideas are without flaw... but with either bad judgment or without allegiance to our goals. So we say "Thank you for your contribution" and we place it in the appropriate bit bucket.
This is the same reason we dont give protection, blocking, and deletion to every anonymous user at their first moment of access.