QUOTE(MZMcBride @ Wed 24th February 2010, 6:59am)
QUOTE(One @ Wed 24th February 2010, 1:54am)
This has been explained many times, and Everyking doesn't ever seem to grasp it.
Pedophiles are different because the site is a potentially a platform for grooming child victims.
I always thought it largely surrounded an "ick" factor. Saying that a free content online encyclopedia is a platform for grooming seems a bit... odd.
Almost as odd as describing Wikipedia as a "free content online encyclopedia." Certainly, that's the product, but the users of Wikipedia are on a sort of social networking site.
If it were just the ick factor--if everyone on the site had to verify that they were of the age of majority--I would not think they needed to be banned. Heck, labeling them makes it easier to monitor the POV of their contributions.
But since Wikipedia is as open as it is, they should be banned.