[WikiEN-l] Jayjg is not AWOL

[Jimmy Wales]

Daniel R. Tobias wrote:
> On 28 Aug 2007 at 14:57:16 -0700, "George Herbert" 
> <george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Either the system works... we are mostly honorable people, and have
>> enough honest and principled people that if something seriously
>> sinister started someone would stand up and publically announce it and
>> call for it to end.
> 
> ...and get labeled a "troll", his messages summarily deleted as 
> trolling, and eventually he gets banned, then any subsequent person 
> who expresses similar ideas gets labeled a "sockpuppet" and banned 
> too, even more summarily.  And the clique pats themselves on the back 
> for defeating another bad guy.

I don't think that's a fair description of what goes on at all.