On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 8:20 PM, Neotarf <neotarf@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_harassment_reporting

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.