[WikiEN-l] Newbies who don't act like newbies

[Ron Ritzman]

On 12/2/07, Kwan Ting Chan <ktc at ktchan.info> wrote:

> As has been said, who cares if an account is a returning banned user /
> friend of WR

Just wild speculation on my part but some time in the past, somebody
read a post over "there" by one of "them" bragging about how he had
control of several WP admin accounts. Later on, an admin assumed to be
one of "them" did something "bad". (unblocked some proxies or
something)

So the hunt was on for "them" with the goal of keeping them away from
admin bits. Suspects were those who didn't follow the typical editing
pattern of starting out as an enthusiastic but clueless editor
tripping over policy and wikicode.