Alec wrote:
So, for anyone who doesn't know, it's now come
out that there was
basically a citizens "militia" of sorts that created secret mailing
lists where they coordinated their actions and presented secret
evidence against those suspected of being affiliated with a BADSITE...
This is a LOT of drama.
Yow. I, for one, didn't know that (though I can't say I'm surprised).
There's an easy way to short-circuit most of the drama: everybody
on that (or those) secret mailing lists ought to voluntarily take
a pretty long wikibreak. (A year wouldn't be too long.) Their
intentions were good, I know, but they got way too wrapped up in
things, and they (and the rest of us) now need some time to unwrap.