On 10/12/05, Michael Turley michael.turley@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/12/05, Jack Lynch jack.i.lynch@gmail.com wrote:
we should be nicer in general, who cares what postulated disability other editors might have.
I very infrequently "me too", but this is well worth repeating.
The sad thing about this affair is that everybody involved, right down to those instituting blocks "to enforce guidelines", seems to have taken these extreme and sometimes nonsensically harsh measures out of the purest of motives. They clearly felt that it was necessary to protect the wiki from "disruption" by people who produced lots of short stubs, or wrote not very good articles about anal sex in Brazil. There's something almost Milgramesque about the whole affair. Would they have behaved in such a needlessly brutal manner towards a random weirdly acting stranger in another context?