On 6/11/06, Oskar Sigvardsson <oskarsigvardsson(a)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