--- tarquin <tarquin(a)planetunreal.com> wrote:
The Cunctator wrote:
I really don't think BFB should be banned.
He's
obstreperous and an
aggressive editor, but I don't think he's
malicious. I could be wrong
about the maliciousness, but still, we need to get
away from the idea we
can ban away all our problems rather than working
to fix them.
I reverted some of his redirects which ANthere
wasn't happy with, and
wrote quick stubs.
He helped me with those, saying he had nothing
against a stub for that
article.
I think he was trying to make "ghost links" go to
something that was in
the same subject area -- Anthere disagreed (and so
do I).
I must state here that Fat Budda has been making many
stubs to replace the redirects, which I deeply
appreciate.
I find his habit of signing in funny squiggles VERY
irritating, and it
certainly adds weight to the recent request to
disable the
nickname-signing feature.
(I've been tempted to apply CommunityPressure and
just go round changing
his signature to his real username)
Agree. His sig only appears to me as squares. This is
a bit disturbing, in particular since one or two other
users also choose that type of approach, and appear to
me with squares in their sig as well.
Imho, names were initially an attempt to disimbiguate
people, to improve communication. When names appear
the same (as squares), they are no more names.
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