On 8/17/07, Daniel Cannon cannon.danielc@gmail.com wrote:
Slowking Man wrote:
On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 12:28 -0400, Anthony wrote:
Depends on the recipient. In the case of Diebold, I think most Wikipedians are willing to look the other way.
So we're now blocking people based upon our opinions of them?
I certainly hope you didn't interpret this blocking as stem from some personal aversion to Diebold -- I viewed it as a way of addressing legitimate concerns raised about the editing by this IP. I think what Anthony is stressing is that there are certain incidents where a punitive block, despite being a generally discouraged thing, will be tolerated by the community, not that there are certain people will simply dislike and therefore block.
In any case, there seems to be agreement here that the block should be lifted, and so I have done so; however, so far as I am concerned, it does not seem to be a big deal one way or the other.
If there is no wheel war about it, no matter how much hot air is blown, by definition it is not a big deal. :p
Johnleemk