On 08/11/2007, Daniel R. Tobias dan@tobias.name wrote:
On 8 Nov 2007 09:38:35 +1100, "Steve Bennett" stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
- Once a person with sufficient wisdom and
authority has deemed that a person is a troll, THEY ARE A TROLL. No more time should be wasted on them.
That sounds a lot like the Orwellian "Unperson", or Scientology "Suppressive Person", concepts, and can be really unfair to people who are unjustly labeled this way. Didn't an early version of WP:NPA specifically say that labeling somebody a "troll" was an impermissible personal attack? The Wikipedia culture has changed since then, and not necessarily for the better.
If you don't acknowledge that they exist then for all intents and purposes they don't exist. However, its not nice in my opinion to shun people who aren't abusive or vandals. This is possibly why I have been told off too many times on this list for keeping discussions about trolls going for longer than they possibly should.
That version of NPA is the one I remember... Has it really disappeared recently, I hadn't noticed.
Peter