Jeremy,

It's a question of proportionality. Right now, I feel sorrier for Drmies than I do for women on Wikipedia. 

There are really better targets to pick on in Wikipedia than a guy who is known to engage in flowery and humorous prose wishing his friend a happy birthday.

Andreas

On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Jeremy Baron <jeremy@tuxmachine.com> wrote:

On Jul 20, 2013 10:36 AM, "Andreas Kolbe" <jayen466@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SsccRkLLzU

nice video. maybe I'll even go watch it a 2nd time. but…

> I think it would generally be wise to avoid jumping to conclusions. There was a great Guardian advert about this once:
>
> LadyofShalott and Drmies are friends. She has 1200 edits to his talk page, he has 400 to hers.

I don't see the relevance of any of that.

quoting Fluffernutter (from earlier in this thread):
> But I did all those things, Powers. I said that I knew it was supposed to be humourous and that LoS might not personally mind it, and I said that my concern was for other people reading it.

so…

It doesn't matter if LoS and Drmies are friends.

It doesn't matter if the original post could be justified or acceptable from 3 perspectives/interpretations.

What does matter is that a substantial (non-trivial) number of people had objections to it (or possibly even interpreted it as Carol did).

-Jeremy


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