On 10/2/06, Steve Summit <scs(a)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.