I wrote:
>Our biggest problems within the community are not
anons trolling and
>vandalizing, but rather egregious trolls and pov pushers who log in
>and take advantage of our boundless good will.
WikiUser wrote:
Can you give any examples of what you mean by
"egregious trolls and
pov pushers"? Also of the "boundless good will."? Also, who is meant
by "we" and "our"? -WikiUser.
Oh, I don't even know where to begin, really.
But if we tried really really hard, we might be able to find a user
who was given a short term block from Wikipedia and who responded with
a bizarre claim to the mailing list that the admin who did the block
was corrupt and violating Federal law.
We might even find that this same user has a long history of calling
people Nazi, and accusing people of being "racist against the English"
for the flimsiest of reasons and so on.
And then, wonder of wonders, we find that this person is *still
editing Wikipedia daily* and in fact *posting to our policy discussion
mailing list*. This is what I mean by taking advantage of our
boundless goood will.
--Jimbo
p.s. Yes, I know, I know... "Don't feed..." but it was too fun to
pass up.