On Jan 31, 2008 10:27 AM, Mark Ryan ultrablue@gmail.com wrote:
On 31/01/2008, LaraLove laralove@bathrobecabal.org wrote:
What I'm upset about is your shameful behavior and the fact that the moderators of this list ignored it.
I didn't ignore it; I simply agreed with what he said. The thought that crossed my mind was that it was "pretty stupid" to be uploading images of one's children to a wildly popular public web site. I just chose not to voice my thoughts, because I didn't think it was entirely appropriate to criticise the parenting skills of someone I don't know. But evidently you are keen to make a big deal about it and draw attention to the slight on your character, so I guess it's alright for me to be honest.
With the high profile cases where administrators have been stalked in real life as a result of personally identifiable information they post on the wiki, I feel it's mad for people to post their real names, let alone photos of themselves, names of loved ones or photos of loved ones. Sure, if you stay out of trouble on the wiki the chances of such a thing happening is pretty slight, but there's plenty of nutcases out there to go around.
In that light, I think it's wrong to call your posting of pictures of your children as "grossly inappropriate", but I still feel it is a bit reckless.
~Mark Ryan (one of the WikiEN-l moderators)
The moderators are not a collective group, by the way; as a moderator, I ignored that aside because we tend to be rather lenient about comments on the mailing list (we're not Wikipedia; we have no real policies on assuming bad faith or personal attacks, and banned users are free to spew their tripe here, provided it's not outrageous enough to qualify them for moderation) unless they form a continuing pattern of disruptive behaviour. I disagree with the notion that we should give in to nutcases this much, but I saw no reason to jump on a probably poorly-worded aside without a history of disruptive or abusive behaviour.
Johnleemk