One of the problems is that you run into these folks while editing in an area that you are interested in and probably have a point of view about yourself. That puts you in a poor position to be banning them.
Fred
From: Stan Shebs shebs@apple.com Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 10:42:55 -0700 To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia on Volokh Conspiracy
Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales wrote:
I do wonder how, in the long run, we will deal more effectively with the kind of POV warrioring that leads to entries like this one... where politically motivated hysteria leads to blatant factual errors.
Lots more banning, I suspect. There is simply no upside and lots of downside to letting WP be hijacked by political partisans, and they will keep coming, in ever-larger numbers, as long as they find WP a congenial soapbox. We need a process to identify the avowed partisans and kick them off after no more than a week, instead of agonizing over them for months and sucking up massive amounts of time that could be used more productively.
Partisans are actually easy to recognize, because they are completely unable to admit that the other side might possibly be right about an issue. If you were to ban anybody who refused to acknowledge the possible validity of a different point of view, you'd see a whole more useful discussion on talk pages.
Stan
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