Steve Summit wrote:
Stan Shebs wrote:
I would be ashamed to be associated with a project for which the only option is that members run and hide.
Your shame is misplaced, I think.
It's like saying you'd be ashamed to dock your boat in a marina in which the only option for coping with rising and falling tides was floating docks. Or that you'd be ashamed to live in a world in which the only option for coping with rain was umbrellas.
I took Stephen Park's suggestion as more akin to "move to the desert, or stay indoors and only go out when the sun is shining - we are unable to invent umbrellas".
As a practical matter, and to abuse the analogy further :-), if we give in, WP enemies will have their formula for getting rid of all the editors who stand up to them - if there's no rain, continuously dump buckets of water out of upper-story windows, knowing that eventually the passersby will blame the editors for "causing" the downpour. Brandt and his type are skillful players of the noise game; keep at it long enough, and eventually you will con newcomers into believing there must be some legitimate reason for all the racket.
Stan