[WikiEN-l] Newbies who don't act the way you want them to

[Nick]

What was it someone once said.

Block everybody, those who know how to use an unblock template are socks and
the rest aren't.

Scoff,
Nick

On 02/12/2007, Daniel R. Tobias <dan at tobias.name> wrote:
>
> Exactly how are newbies *supposed* to act?  If they come in all
> clueless, blundering around ineptly, they're likely to get bitten,
> especially if something they say or do in the course of their random
> flailing is (mis)interpreted as a personal attack or legal threat,
> getting them into a spiral towards indef banning they have no easy
> way of averting given their lack of knowledge of all the arcane rules
> and procedures that get tossed at them.
>
> On the other hand, if they act like they know what they're doing, and
> actually get through any of the convoluted procedural stuff
> correctly, that proves they're a sockpuppet.  Ban them!
>
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