steven l. rubenstein wrote:
I just found this message from TDC on my talk page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Slrubenstein
A question for you: Now, I know you Marxist types dont believe in an afterlife and the like, but if I were to hold a seance and channel Marx's spirit through you, do you think you would try and suck your own dick. TDC 04:15, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Clearly, comments of that sort have no place in the wikipedia community. You're right, Steven, that it's generally best to try kindness and education on people like this -- at first. We need to always project the attitude that, hey, we aren't uptight ninnies or anything, but after all there is such a thing as being anti-social and unhelpful, and when it comes right down to it, the community can't function _in our capacity as encyclopedists_ if behavior like that flourishes.
There's a certain amount of rough-and-tumble in the give-and-take to build great articles, of course. But then there's crossing the line, which comments like this clearly do.
--Jimbo