[WikiEN-l] Vandalism by banned user

[Poor, Edmund W]

In case anyone still has any lingering doubts about whether it was right
to ban Wik...

If he's only willing to contribute on his own terms, and if he reacts to
a "time-out" by running a computer program that automatically vandalizes
our encyclopedia database,  

... THEN it's fairly obvious that he never had a congenial purpose in
mind. He was like those people who post whatever they want to newsgroups
or blogs. And if others object they just say "Nyaah nyaah, can't stop
me!"

Now of course when Bilbo was trying to rescue the dwarves from Giant
Spiders in "The Hobbit", he did a bit of taunting and teasing. There's a
place for everything, I guess. But the spiders had waylaid the travelers
and intended to eat them; a far cry from the, er, ecology of Wikipedia.

Uncle Ed