On 4/27/07, Blu Aardvark jeffrey.latham@gmail.com wrote:
If we're going to start playing the personal attack game, go fellate yourself.
Umm, that's kind of a personal attack. It's also kind of odd coming from the person who yesterday said on the list "Well, naturally Jay would agree with you *rolls eyes*."
If any reasonably neutral user where to look over the facts of my case, they would clearly see that I was initially a good-faith editor, but turned sour after enduring horrendous personal attacks from you, your friend "Sarah", and others. I was accused of being an anti-Semite, a neo-Nazi, a neo-Nazi sympathizer, and other unpleasantries.
Wow, someone said you were an antisemite and neo-Nazi? Where?
No wonder you cracked down so hard on those people who were calling Wikipedia editors "Mossad agents", "CIA agents", AIPAC agents", "sluts", "whores", etc.
Oh wait. You didn't.
I had to deal with massive assumptions of bad faith until I eventually fired back. What was my crime to begin with? I was an administrator on an unpopular webforum and refused to bend to the whims of certain Wikipedia contributors in the way I ran it. Thus, I was targeted, smeared, and eventually banned as a "disruptive troll".
I could have sworn it had something to do with the creation of all sorts of vandal sockpuppets - maybe you thought that was within policy, though?
And to those ignorant of how I ran the webforum, I took great pains to ensure that problematic content would stay out of search engines. First, I created a members-only subforum for users who wanted to vent personal attacks, and later, after the incident with Katefan0, I modified the board settings so that the "editors" forum would also stay out of search engines. Now, I'll admit that these steps were not entirely sufficient, but I can also say, and honestly, that I have done more than Wikipedia has done to protect people's privacy and their right not to have libel about them spread around the internet.
Err, yes, when the libel was being spread high and thick, and the personal attacks were flying furiously, you definitely suggested they keep it to the private area of the forum, though, of course, you didn't actually enforce that. And that pretty much put an end to it, I'm sure.
You cannot take any moral high ground, Jay.
LOL!