File:Jimmy Whales 2 13 07.ogg

Summary
This is an excerpt from a net@nite podcast, with Jimmy Whales on vandalism.

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Jimmy Wales on the podcast net@night talked about the way Wikipedia stops vandals. He stated:

''' "Assume good faith, assume that people are, are basically trying to do good so that you don't get into a combative relationship with newcomers who are simply making a mistake, um very often somebody comes in and starts vandalizing, a kind word to say, you know come on we're trying to do something useful here, knock it off, it works surprisingly often, not always, uh so the other, the other big thing is really uh, making sure that the community has the tools that they need to be able to, uh, Block people who are doing something bad, so.." '''