Matt R wrote:
--- Puppy puppy@KillerChihuahua.com wrote:
MONGO has been the target of massive trolling and harassment. It shows good sense to try to insulate oneself from becoming a target of the same people
Since "Concerned Wikipedian" was appealing to Jimbo, he might wish to communicate with Jimbo via private e-mail using his Wikipedia identity.
In a noisy environment, it's not a bad heuristic to use reputation in order to evaluate how seriously we should take someone's comments.
Exactly. Several good people have said that they do not agree with the desysopping of MONGO, using their own good names to do it, and I don't see any problem with that. We are a diverse community, and we are not required to agree on everything. In particular, we must have a culture of open tolerance for dissent and debate as a form of proper check on our actions.
A culture in which people anonymously take potshots at other people's decisions is not a healthy one.
--Jimbo