On 10/11/2007, Matthew Brown <morven(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Nov 10, 2007 1:15 PM, Daniel R. Tobias
<dan(a)tobias.name> wrote:
> You take me to task for hyperbole (a valid point;
is McCarthyism a
> sufficiently non-murderous analogy to use instead of the
> Inquisition?), but commit some of it yourself when you refer to lives
> being ruined. If anybody considers their life ruined because of
> anything that went on either on Wikipedia or an anti-Wikipedia forum,
> then they're taking all of this stuff way too seriously.
If this behavior did not extend beyond Wikipedia and
anti-Wikipedia
forums, it would be a lot less harmful than it is. Wikipedia Review
participants have proven themselves quite willing to try and get
people fired from their jobs, for instance, simply because the person
was a Wikipedia admin - even in cases when they had no conflict with
the person themselves.
Indeed. Dan, don't be dense.
- d.