On 4/19/07, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
Jimmy has given three reasons:
- he asked nicely
- we are talking about a productive way forward in the future
- it has been more than a year
These seem like good reasons to me, and I trust his judgment in this matter. I think we should all be willing to try out such experiments more frequently, rather than dividing our world into friends and enemies.
The problem with it, Erik, is that it sends a message that users may harass and stalk other users, post libel about them, out them, contact their employers, contact their boyfriends, and generally try to make life miserable for them, so long as they do it off-wiki.
Is that your position?
Sarah