[WikiEN-l] Ban policy

[Fred Bauder]

My fault, but it seemed a simple way to deal with it. The person running JRR
Trollkin always choses a name that says, "I'm I troll; I dare you to ban
me". Not terribly sophisticated. It seemed a simple way to deal with the
troll movement (probably only one person) as a whole.

We bogged down on the notion that a person could chose a "troll" name and
still be a useful and responsible contributor. Which is true in theory, but
someone who innocently did that would probably also be willing to select a
name that did not include "troll" without a fuss.

Fred

From: John Robinson <john at freeq.com>
Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 23:16:17 -0500
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
Subject: [WikiEN-l] Ban policy

c) at least a month of which was caused by some sort of crazy departure from
the case itself ("JRR Trollkien is an offensive name". Where did that come
from? Why was that even put forth?)

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