On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 8:20 PM, Neotarf <neotarf(a)gmail.com> wrote:
@Risker: "I have a simple question to ask: How
many people in this thread
have publicly or privately requested to the Wikimedia Foundation ED that
additional resources be assigned to trust and safety issues such as death
threats?"
Answer: 26.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Community_discussion_on_hara…
That said, everyone I know of who has ever publicly objected to sexual
harassment has subsequently been indeffed. Maybe that's what the essay
should say.
Really? I can name a half dozen off the top of my head that became admins,
functionaries, arbitrators, etc. At least some are still active. I don't
think "if you report harassment you'll be blocked indefinitely" would be an
accurate thing to tell people.
I think Kerry's post sort of misses the point. No one will argue that even
"joke" death threats are acceptable or fine; there just is no point in
wasting police resources by reporting "threats" that turn out to be joke
memes or totally unserious. The police realize this and ignore most
threats; unfortunately, they don't have any reliable method for sorting out
the 1 threat in a million that represents real danger.