[Wikipedia-l] What if a signed-in user started writing the following...

[The Cunctator]

On 11/11/02 12:09 PM, "Poor, Edmund W" <Edmund.W.Poor at abc.com> wrote:

> What would happen if a signed-in user started writing the following all over
> Wikipedia? How would we deal with it? (Purely a hypothetical case, I assure
> you ;-)
> 
> 
> "I hate everybody and everything. I will destroy Wikipedia, and you can't stop
> me. Your own stupid rules forbid it, BWAH HA HA HA!"
> 
For someone who really doesn't like swearing, you seem to do it a lot.

We'd revert the changes, and probably publicly wonder what the user's
problem is. I for example would question the "hate everybody and everything"
assertion. Is that really possible? I mean, it takes a lot of energy to
truly hate. And then there's the question of if you hate everybody and
everything, why have you not committed suicide? And why choose Wikipedia as
a target? I mean, really. WP does not have that much influence or
importance, especially if the targets of your hatred are "everybody" and
"everything".

Writing the above all over Wikipedia is hardly the way to destroy it.