On 13/11/2007, Guy Chapman aka JzG <guy.chapman(a)spamcop.net> wrote:
There's some truth in this, but I don't see
much evidence that
people are being actively banned just for holding a POV, only for
disruptively asserting it. I guess our tolerance for pedophilia
activism and holocaust denial is pretty low, but the average
holocaust denier engages in unambiguously banworthy editing (they
are usually not too subtle in their biases).
The problem is not the POV per se, it's the manner of POV-pushing.
What we see is that POV-pushers from both fields just seem not to know
how to behave like civilised humans in practice, not just theory. So
the POV turns out to actually be a pretty reliable guide to "trouble
ahead." Which is a bit of a pity for the pursuit of the purest of
NPOV, though only about this much:
http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Template:Boohoo
-d.