Banned due to continued spamming
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2011-12-15 13:19:49 Was she really spamming? The kind of link she added wasn't really helpful, but she might have meant well. Or was I missing something? I see that she added links to couponcabin to several pages on Daviswiki and Sacwiki. So maybe she works for them. But maybe she's also someone who just uses couponcabin, and thought other people might benefit from using it too? Still not a reason to put a link to couponcabin on the pages, but it would mean that she maybe shouldn't be banned? And her persistence in adding links to pages even after the links were removed might just be because she didn't know how to look at a page's history to see that her links had been removed for good reasons.
Maybe when the new Localwiki code is in place, and admins have access to user emails, we can email her to let her know that her particular edit wasn't in the spirit of Daviswiki/Sacwiki, but that she's invited to contribute in other ways. —NicholasBarry
She doesn't mean well. She means to promote the website she was linking to and wants to abuse our decent pagerank. She is not a member of any local community (she is in Chicago). Even if she were, nobody who were sharing a link they found useful would do so in this manner. ![[WWW]](http://wikispot.org/wiki/eggheadbeta/img/sycamore-www.png){kind=small}
This is how a normal person shares a useful link. —WilliamLewis
2011-12-15 13:22:46 I did a find on that coupon website for Park Place and County Fair (the pages to which she added links, saying there were coupons there). Neither one turned up. I used the search feature there and it routed me to another coupon website which had nothing relevant. Moreover, she appeared to be editing from Illinois.
Seemed like a spammer to me. —TomGarberson
2011-12-15 13:28:47 I saw her posts, but actually didn't ban her until the details of her links came out. Coupon sites are okay-ish, but they weren't Davis or even California related. Searches seem to jump to a retail site. —JabberWokky
2011-12-15 17:09:14 Ah. All good information. Especially about her being in Chicago. If she were a Davisite or Sacramentan... —NicholasBarry
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Then she wouldn't have been banned without a ongoing history of abuse and a long, serious community discussion. Only one person in Davis is banned, and only a handful of people have ever been banned in the many year history of the wiki, a couple upon their request due to personal issues. -jw
