On 3/12/07, William Pietri <william(a)scissor.com> wrote:
This sort of willful refusal to understand what we are
trying to do is a
bad enough problem now when we have to beat back each individual
partisan. Unless we make it clear that any sort of paid
conflict-of-interest editing is strictly forbidden, we will open a door
to endless trouble. Spam email was a problem when people did it
Well, I don't agree with the logical connection you're making there.
Would outlawing transparent, regulated, paid Wikipedia editing have
any effect on this kind of insidious behaviour? I don't see why it
should. Quite clearly, Almeda was attempting to work behind closed
doors here. They also knew that what they wanted to do would not be
tolerated. How would any rule or policy against paid editing have had
any effect at all?
Steve