On Nov 10, 2007 1:15 PM, Daniel R. Tobias dan@tobias.name wrote:
You take me to task for hyperbole (a valid point; is McCarthyism a sufficiently non-murderous analogy to use instead of the Inquisition?), but commit some of it yourself when you refer to lives being ruined. If anybody considers their life ruined because of anything that went on either on Wikipedia or an anti-Wikipedia forum, then they're taking all of this stuff way too seriously.
If this behavior did not extend beyond Wikipedia and anti-Wikipedia forums, it would be a lot less harmful than it is. Wikipedia Review participants have proven themselves quite willing to try and get people fired from their jobs, for instance, simply because the person was a Wikipedia admin - even in cases when they had no conflict with the person themselves.
The behavior of amorrow extends beyond even that, and the fact that WR tolerated him as long as they did (I'm not sure if he's presently banned from there or not) speaks volumes.
-Matt