Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4731447-20140307231739/@comment-5691231-20140308090826

Why are we having a discussion to shut down the Featured Image/Article threads all because of the conduct of one user (who has been blocked for nearly a month - and still has to serve five more consecutive months of that block before being welcome to the wiki again)?

That's like saying: "Ok guys, we have to shut down the chat, because a user has been misbehaving there" - this is giving in. Besides, as I just mentioned - Jason has been blocked for nearly a month and is still serving the block; why complain about it now? We can't predict his future, he could come back and actually mean what he has said.

I think we're overreacting - we're making it seem like Jason is the new era of Amar. At least he isn't making a never-ending string of sockpuppet accounts to avoid his ban; he's actually dealing with it. At this point, for now, I'm just going to say the troubles with Jason have ended and I don't think he's going to come back with the same attitude.

No matter what we shut down, there will always be rules, and there will always be users who intentionally break those rules. We have to learn to deal with them hand-by-hand, and not get rid of creative wiki ideas just because of these users. It's not worth the trouble when there's always going to be more to come.