[WikiEN-l] Missed Opportunities to have avoided the Durova Case

[Relata Refero]

On Nov 27, 2007 9:54 PM, Guy Chapman aka JzG <guy.chapman at spamcop.net>
wrote:

> On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 11:04:50 -0500, "Wily D"
> <wilydoppelganger at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >One could hope, but a lot of us are genuinely afraid that trying to
> >write an encyclopaedia is going to get us banned for various reasons,
> >and would like to feel safe that we're not going to wake up banned as
> >a sockpuppet of Wikipedia Review member X or whatnot.
>
> That's *extremely* unlikely to happen, *especially* if you are using
> and have only ever used one account.
>
> Not as small as the probability that a returner who goes all the way to
RfA is in fact a banned user.

Do you have any idea how many people will look like returners over the
course of the years? As WP becomes an institution and people dip into it
every now and then and then choose to settle down to an account once they
already know their way around? This sort of paranoia is so detached from the
reality of how most of us, especially the casual editors who keep this place
growing, operate, that its laughable. You're designing the responses of a
top 5 websites around your fears of a dozen people so inept they were kicked
off Wikipedia. And most of us uninvolved in the debates earlier this year
neither understand nor share this level of concern.

RR.