On 5/29/06, Stephen Bain stephen.bain@gmail.com wrote:
This is exactly the point. To start with, they at least had the potential to offer something constructive that we could use to improve the project. The only productive threads were ones started by me and other WP regulars in the vain hope of eliciting something positive, but every discussion degenerated into an abuse-fest against whichever admin was out of favour that week.
We tolerated their existence as a legitimate source of criticism, which is not only entirely appropriate, it should be encouraged; external criticism is the best kind. I used to think that good WP users could participate and mould WR into something beneficial to the project. Then I used to think that we should all leave them alone so they could consume themselves in their own bile.
But now their petty hatred is having consequences in the real world, and for me, that is crossing a line. Forgive me for being so uncharacteristically agressive, but I have simply had enough of WR.
Nothing we can do. Legaly they are untouchable. DOS attacks or forum invasions are counter productive. Asking nicely is unlikely to work. I doubt they are breaking lunarpages' TOS and even if they are they can server hop.
WR serves Brandt as a ready made circle of sycophants.
Blogs and the like would provide them otherwise. There are people who hate us. There are people who want to see us hurt. There are people who want to see us fail.