[WikiEN-l] Genies, Socks, grey areas, and Community 'norms' (was Newbies who don't act like newbies)

[jayjg]

On Dec 3, 2007 6:57 PM, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/4/07, jayjg <jayjg99 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > With almost 3 million Wikipedia articles, I suspect thousands are
> > vandalized each day. Many vandals are reverted by bots, many others by
> > editors. One banned editor is not going to make a significant impact
> > on this, and the fact that some vandalism is not immediately reverted
> > is not a good reason for letting banned editors edit.
>
> Heh, yeah. There must be a relevant movie scene here, where a
> handcuffed criminal says to the police officer, "you know, I'd love to
> wash your car, but you'll have to take these off me" or something.
>
> People like "private musings" are far more interested in discussing
> their bans or philosophising about banning in general than they are in
> actually doing work.

It's not as if his 8 accounts ever did much vandal reverting to begin with.