Bryan Derksen stated for the record:
At 06:26 PM 1/28/2005 -0800, Robert Brookes
wrote:
> "You used the phrase
"Gestapo-like" to illustrate
> heavy-handed admins. That was entirely
appropiate.
But this is exactly what I was disagreeing with;
the comparison of the
Gestapo to heavy-handed admins is emphatically
not
appropriate. Maybe
when the heavy-handed admins are rounding up
editors and killing them en
masse you might have basis for it, but right now
it's _just a website_.
If an admin goes mad with power and bans you, it
just means you've got
some spare time in your day to browse webcomics
or
whatever. Get some
perspective.
Give it up, Bryan. It is clear that Robert is
unable to tell the
difference between a slight irritation and mass
murder. A person who
cannot distinguish between the tales he has heard of
a power-mad gang of
thugs deliberately set loose to terrorize a
population and the duly
appointed agents of a community whom he sees
properly enforcing widely
accepted and lenient laws is completely lacking the
facility of
discrimination. His heroic proclamation
I have perspective. I try to live up to the promise
that it must never happen again. I believe that
whenever we see evidence of the beast rising out of
the human breast we must stand up and be counted
...
even if we get knocked down in the process. I am
prepare to stand and be counted ... are you?
further demonstrates his astounding lack of
perspective -- clearly he
thinks he's defending nothing less than Civilization
itself against the
beastly hordes he expects will be kicking down his
door at any moment --
beastly hordes of murderous Wikipedia admins. This
is a person who
needs more help than can be provided over a mailing
list.
Another possibility exists, of course, which also
should be handled by
dropping the argument.
== See also ==
* [[Don't feed the trolls]]
* [[Godwin's Law]]
Sean,
Thanks for this reply. I will use it for comparitive
purposes with the AC as you see I once made a very
similar post about someone else and that is now being
cited as a personal attack by me. As your reply could
not possibly be a personal attack ... then neither
could mine, yes?
Robert
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