On 4/20/07, Tony Sidaway tonysidaway@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/20/07, Fred Bauder fredbaud@waterwiki.info wrote:
Come now, how did Ryulong's actions put people in danger? His block *prevented* them from editing Wikipedia. We still don't know their identities (although as a matter of course, given the similarity of the inflammatory accusations by socks, I hope the checkusers have investigated this affair for possible abusive socking).
I'm not going to do any such thing.
Quite right. Let cowardice die a loveless death, nameless, unmarked.
Um, what? I don't follow the comment about cowardice, whatsoever.
I think there is a consensus, general though not certainly not unanimous, that Ryulong's blocks were unwarranted and that he compounded the mistake by failing to disable autoblock. I think it's also clear that he acted in good faith, that his not having thought through the autoblock issue was inadvertent, that the blocks have all been lifted, that he has not reblocked anyone, and that in fact he has apologized on-wiki for the blocks. With all the other concerns to worry about, I fail to see why that isn't the end of this aspect of the matter.
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