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

[Wily D]

On 9/17/07, Matthew Brown <morven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/17/07, Ken Arromdee <arromdee at rahul.net> wrote:
> > Is that the cynical "people like to ignore bugs by calling them features" type
> > of feature, or are you actually suggesting it's a real feature?
>
> I suspect that David believes, as do I, that doing the right thing on
> Wikipedia cannot be wholly written into a set of iron-clad rules
> capable of being interpreted by a robot.  Furthermore, given the
> dynamic environment, things constantly change.  Therefore, human
> decision-making and sensible conflict resolution must be used.
>
> -Matt
>
Roughly, yes.  We're supposed to be making the right decision
regardless of the rules.

WilyD