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

joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu
Wed Nov 21 02:25:46 UTC 2007


Quoting Skyring <skyring at gmail.com>:

> On Nov 21, 2007 4:38 AM, Ron Ritzman <ritzman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 11/20/07, Skyring <skyring at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Some admins have the uncanny ability to smell out and ban a sock without
>> > benefit of CheckUser.
>>
>> Yes, it's called the "duck test" and it works when said socks go back
>> to doing the same things that got them banned in the first place.
>> Don't do those things and nobody has any reason to suspect you of
>> being a sock.
>>
>>
> I was actually thinking of a couple of cases where innocent editors were
> permanently banned for apparently being my socks.


Give us examples. It is all very nice to claim that this has occurred but we
need to see examples.





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