On 3/12/07, William Pietri william@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