On 6/11/06, Oskar Sigvardsson oskarsigvardsson@gmail.com wrote:
I respectfully disagree. What happened to Phil shouldn't come with the territory of being an admin on a website.
I sympathize with Phil, I really do, but the thing is that the reason governments never negotiate with terrorists isn't of some abstract philosophical reason, it's because it doesn't work.
Suppose Brandt took down his Hive Mind page in return for us deleting the article. Do you think that he would stop posting stuff at wikipedia review? Do you think he would stop investigating admins and inciting other people to harass them? I doubt it.
Even if we could somehow stop Brandt (which I think is HIGHLY doubtful, he won't change his mind and he won't change the subject, if you know what I mean), pulling down his page will only serve as an invite for the next guy. And the next guy. And the next guy.
This would simply not work.
--Oskar
Agreed. From what I understand of Brandt's views, nothing less than our public and prominent shutdown would ever truly satisfy him. Have you read his reasoning and screeds about aliiances between Google and Wikipedia and Wikipedia mirrors and how vandalism and bad articles will never die (and other foolishness like that)? It seems to me that he sees himself as having been permamently wronged, and that our entire project is antithetical to his beliefs.
~maru