My feeling is that they would not at all enjoy Wikipedia if they did not have "troll" in their user name. A sharp stick in the eye is what they are all about.
Killjoy Fred
From: Mark Richards marich712000@yahoo.com Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 17:06:56 -0700 (PDT) To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Subject: [WikiEN-l] Trolls - A novel approach - don't feed them
Folks, This is my first post here, so I'm sorry that it is on such an unfortunate topic, but I wanted to suggest an alternative approach to the users who have been involved with J.R.R. Trollkien and other users with 'troll' in the name. It seems to me that by continuing to ban, block, hold hearings about etc, that we are feeding trollish behavior. The recent banning of one user for 'disruptive edits' or something like that in particular, while I can understand the sentiment, leaves us open to a double standard - I have seen many other users exhibit much more disruptive edits. I would suggest that we stop creating a lot of light and noise about this, and deal with behavior when / if it becomes a problem. Above all, don't needlessly feed the trolls - creating rules like 'no usernames with the word troll in them' seems gaurunteed to spur trolls to find the limit of this eg anagrams, words containing 'troll', synonyms etc - I'm pretty sure the novelty of it would wear off if people ignored them. My two cents. Mark
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