QUOTE(everyking @ Tue 23rd February 2010, 9:04pm)
QUOTE(Viridae @ Wed 24th February 2010, 1:56am)
QUOTE(CharlotteWebb @ Wed 24th February 2010, 11:51am)
QUOTE(Viridae @ Wed 24th February 2010, 12:32am)
Can someone please link someone background about this guy? What is he? Convicted pedo?
Eric said that Herostratus was "
apparently" convicted of
possessing child porn.
I don't know this inference is based on the cryptic notes on Herostratus' user-page (taken also in the context of the articles he chooses to edit) or if there is other evidence supporting it.
If there is evidence for it I'll change he tax evasion block to a refer to arbcom one.
I can't see the basis for blocking someone for real world activity. Obviously he's being punished in the real world, and he's using a legal means as a conduit to editing Wikipedia. If people are to be blocked for something like "possessing child porn", what about other crimes? Credit card fraud? Terrorism? Do they both warrant Wikipedia sanctions, or neither?
What on earth is wrong with you? You'd let known or strongly suspected pedophiles edit Wikipedia? Would you let Osama Bin Laden edit it knowing that he's an international terrorist? If the Foundation or the Wikipedia Community allowed that, the WMF's servers would be melted down and Jimbo ran out of the U.S. on a rail. Section 230 be damned!
For goodness sakes, ArbCom, ban Herostratus now and let us be rid of his filth and idiocy.