On Sat, 2003-04-26 at 19:19, Erik Moeller wrote:
What if he's not logged in? And what is your opinion about banning him? Should Jimbo ban him?
If he's not logged in, a sysop can ban his IP for vandalism or other egregious Wikipedia rule violations (Wikiquette, NPOV).
I don't really see his contributions in those categories. If I'm skeptical, Jimbo will be doubly so -- in 2 years of Wikipedia, we have only really banned a handful of logged in contributors. Lir, Clutch, 24, Helga Jonat. With all the Lir pseudonyms it may look like more though :)
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.