[WikiEN-l] Featured editors?

[Daniel R. Tobias]

On 12 Nov 2007 at 12:01:35 +0000, Guy Chapman aka JzG 
<guy.chapman at spamcop.net> wrote:

> * Links to advocacy by banned or blocked users, in content debates.
> This is completely consistent with existing policy for handling
> banned users: banned is banned, we ban people because they can't
> contribute neutrally, taking it offsite does not fix that problem.

I have a fundamental philosophical problem with extending the "banned 
is banned" concept to the extent that anything originating with a 
banned user must be suppressed from being linked, quoted, or 
mentioned anywhere, even by an editor in good standing.  Are we 
really like the party of Orwell's 1984 that made disfavored people 
into "Unpersons", or like the Church of Scientology which has the 
concept of "Suppressive Persons"?  Such concepts fit better with 
authoritarian regimes and mind-control cults than with communities 
devoted to gathering and sharing information.


-- 
== Dan ==
Dan's Mail Format Site: http://mailformat.dan.info/
Dan's Web Tips: http://webtips.dan.info/
Dan's Domain Site: http://domains.dan.info/