[WikiEN-l] Bans and online/offline reputation (was Re: Follow-up on my Ban from Wikipedia (part 3))

[Anirudh]

I think people tend to take more liberty over online social forums on the
internet. Wikipedia, as an active community of users can be compared to such
websites in more than one ways. And in no way, their "assholery" or misdeeds
should be advertised on the internet by making them available in public
archives.

It lends a bad name to the project as a whole, and dissuades active and
valuable participants to spend their energies building the project. Not
everyone can be expected to be on their best online. Please don't give them
something that they'd regret later.

--Anirudh

On 9/10/07, Matthew Brown <morven at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 9/9/07, Armed Blowfish <diodontida.armata at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > All banned users are assholes all of the sudden?
>
> Not necessarily, but unless our ban of them was mistaken, there was a
> reason to ban them.  This was generally connected to their behavior on
> the project.
>
> I see no reason why that behavior should not, in general, be
> documented and indeed searchable.  I'm not in the business of enabling
> antisocial behavior by ensuring lack of consequences.
>
> -Matt
>
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