On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:00:14 -0500, Risker <risker.wp(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Guy, I'm afraid you're missing the point. This
was a *community *issue that
drew the attention and interest of editors from all kinds of areas. It was
about big picture things, not about individual editors.
And you think that harassment victims privately discussing their
problems causes more of a crisis of confidence than, say, wilful
misrepresentation of the nature of that discussion?
As the arbitrators said, there was a very great deal of bad faith
and poor decorum in that debate. Most of the participants of the
split-out ANI thread should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves, but
are not.
So maybe there is a crisis of confidence: maybe some people
currently lack the confidence that blatant trolling, gross personal
attacks, witch hunts against those who are prepared to block the
sockpuppets of banned users, will ever be dealt with.
Guy (JzG)
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