On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:00:14 -0500, Risker risker.wp@gmail.com wrote:
Guy, I'm afraid you're missing the point. This was a *community *issue that drew the attention and interest of editors from all kinds of areas. It was about big picture things, not about individual editors.
And you think that harassment victims privately discussing their problems causes more of a crisis of confidence than, say, wilful misrepresentation of the nature of that discussion?
As the arbitrators said, there was a very great deal of bad faith and poor decorum in that debate. Most of the participants of the split-out ANI thread should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves, but are not.
So maybe there is a crisis of confidence: maybe some people currently lack the confidence that blatant trolling, gross personal attacks, witch hunts against those who are prepared to block the sockpuppets of banned users, will ever be dealt with.
Guy (JzG)