[WikiEN-l] I'm mad as hell, and I'm not gonna take it any more

[Bryan Derksen]

At 01:14 AM 2/23/2004 +0000, Allan Crossman wrote:

> > I've said it before and I'll say it again. Jimbo needs to
> > officially sanction our revert policy and sysops should be allowed
> > to ban users for 24 hours if they violate it.
>
>After all I've laid out - you want to ban him for a mere 24 hours?

Hopefully that means _every_ time they violate it.

I wouldn't exactly say I'm mad as hell, but I'm certainly nonplussed over 
how the Wikipedia system bends so far over backwards to be "nice" to 
incorrigibly disruptive people like this. Surely at some point the "cost" 
in driving away other contributors who can't stand working with them must 
be outweighing the "benefit" of making sure we don't accidentally ban 
participants who could potentially be valuable contributors some time down 
the road? Not to mention the sheer amount of work some of these users 
create in cleaning up after them.