On 9/10/07, Armed Blowfish diodontida.armata@googlemail.com wrote:
On 10/09/2007, Matthew Brown morven@gmail.com wrote:
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.
Do you really see people in such black-and-white terms?
Not entirely; however, I strongly suspect that the vast majority of people banned have been banned for good reason. There may be some edge cases; I'd submit that in the vast majority even of those, keeping the record available is beneficial, in that it can help explain what happened and perhaps why. Some people have been banned unjustly, I'm sure, but comparatively few: of these, the vast majority (unfortunately) are newbie-biting, and in most of those cases, there is little on-wiki history to erase in any case.
It's also generally the case, I've found, that the banned people making a big fuss about this are the ones for whom their history is deeply unflattering to them, and for good reason; they actually did behave badly.
(As I've explained before, YOU are not banned.)
-Matt