--- tarquin tarquin@planetunreal.com wrote:
The Cunctator wrote:
I really don't think BFB should be banned. He's
obstreperous and an
aggressive editor, but I don't think he's
malicious. I could be wrong
about the maliciousness, but still, we need to get
away from the idea we
can ban away all our problems rather than working
to fix them.
I reverted some of his redirects which ANthere wasn't happy with, and wrote quick stubs. He helped me with those, saying he had nothing against a stub for that article. I think he was trying to make "ghost links" go to something that was in the same subject area -- Anthere disagreed (and so do I).
I must state here that Fat Budda has been making many stubs to replace the redirects, which I deeply appreciate.
I find his habit of signing in funny squiggles VERY irritating, and it certainly adds weight to the recent request to disable the nickname-signing feature. (I've been tempted to apply CommunityPressure and just go round changing his signature to his real username)
Agree. His sig only appears to me as squares. This is a bit disturbing, in particular since one or two other users also choose that type of approach, and appear to me with squares in their sig as well.
Imho, names were initially an attempt to disimbiguate people, to improve communication. When names appear the same (as squares), they are no more names.
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