As we get bigger and bigger, the reward gets bigger and bigger as well,
period. POV pushers are often able to be around for a very long time, as
long as they don't vandalise. We should be much more severe against Single
Purpose Accounts. I've seen people edit nothing else than one subject (e.g.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Rhode_Island_Red)
and still be treated as a regular editor.
SPAs have no place in Wikipedia. Once it is noticed that 90%+ of a certain
contributor's edits are on promoting one view on a subject, whether it may
be well-written, sourced etc, I don't think we should tolerate this. It is
SO easy to use WP to promote a particulars opinion right now.
-Salaskan
2007/6/20, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>om>:
On 19/06/07, Guy Chapman aka JzG <guy.chapman(a)spamcop.net> wrote:
On Sun, 17 Jun 2007 18:25:19 -0400, "The
Cunctator"
<cunctator(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>We've always been a target for vanity,
spam and all manner of
>self-serving crap. See BJAODN.
>(Not to say that things don't change when you're in the top of nearly
>every Google search, just that people have feared and fretted over
>vandals and barbarians from day one.)
Difference: the reward is now greater, and with
it the determination.
I think people like Jason Gastrich have showed us this.
I'm not sure. I think the effect could just be numbers - i.e., there's
a certain proportion of persistent nutters who just can't be told, and
we get more readers, so we get more editors, so we get more nutters.
- d.
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