Rob Church wrote:
On 30/06/06, Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com wrote:
Anyway this is the wrong direction to be heading. There are countless ways we can massively reduce the addition of good-faith copyright violations, by restricting uploads to registered users etc etc etc.
Education, education, education. But with less Blairite incompetence and more up-front, honest, "look dude, we can't accept this, and here's why".
Focussing on the few bad eggs who deliberately upload copyrighted images is wasting our time...
Well, it's not a waste of our time to stop them. Frequent, persistent uploading of copyright infringing material is blockable, no? If it's not, then why the hell not?
Rob Church
Hoi, I would not be surprised that a fair percentage of dubious content comes from a group of people who persist in their habit of seeing everything as fair game. Blocking these people after the appropriate first steps leading up to it makes sense, it would make better sense if this were not only true for Commons but also for their "home" project. This is where they would really feel the pain of withdrawal.
In a similar way, people who troll on other projects should at some stage feel the pain in their own back yard. Thanks, GerardM