On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 00:31:48 -0700, Todd Allen toddmallen@gmail.com wrote:
I don't think you're correct there. A lot of people use hobbies, be that editing Wikipedia, rebuilding classic cars, collecting postage stamps, whatever the case may be, because they personally enjoy it and it keeps their mind sharp. Ruining the ability to do that for them, whether it's dropping their stamp collection in a puddle or running them off of Wikipedia, is not a harmless action. If it were simply "just a website", and no one cares, we wouldn't have a blocking policy, we'd just block whoever we damn well like (or don't like). Just a website, right?
I haven't seen many people run off Wikipedia who didn't badly need to be run off in order to allow the rest of the million or so editors enjoy the project.
Guy (JzG)