[WikiEN-l] Assume bad faith, for banned users.

joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu
Fri Nov 16 15:48:11 UTC 2007


Quoting joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu:

> Quoting Relata Refero <refero.relata at gmail.com>:
>
>>
>> I would think the whole point of banning someone is to say that we no longer
>> believe, as a community, that this person can contribute effectively to the
>> project. Given that, it means that we are in effect assuming that any
>> contribution made by such a user is not made in good faith.
>
> No, there are people who seem to be acting in good faith but just 
> really don't
> work well with others or can't get over their own POV. We should confuse bad
> faith (i.e. Judd Bagley) with good faith editors who just don't work 
> well with
> other people at all.

Er, that should have been "We should not confuse" rather than "We should
confuse"- major difference.




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