On 10/2/06, Steve Summit scs@eskimo.com wrote:
If you're merely "the free encyclopedia anyone can edit", and you ban or severely sanction someone, he may then engage you in a 3-month-long harangue and argument about how he had every right to do what he did and you had no right to ban him for it. But if you can whip out the densely-cribbed TOS agreement and point at subparagraph VII.6.b.iv which specifically prohibits (say) adding commercial external links, then even if the miscreant had never read this, he will (so the theory goes) realize that he could/should have, and will stalk off, duly chastised.
I doubt anyone inclined to engage in a 3-month-long harangue would care what subparagraph VII.6.b.iv says.