Marc Riddell wrote:
Respect is something which cannot be legislated or regulated; it is part civility and part empathy - the ability to respect another being should be built in to us all.
"Should be", yeah. Interesting to ponder how it is that we have thousands of editors who seem to lack a great many human qualities. My cynical theory is that an encyclopedia that *anyone* can edit is going to attract a disproportionate number who would never be accepted into, or have been ejected from other kinds of collaborative projects; and because one of our fundamental principles is to assume good faith, we are slow to get rid of those that are simply not ever going to be a net positive.
Stan