Morven wrote:
Perhaps you are not trying to cause drama. However, I believe you are trying to USE it - because it helps your cause. Ideologues are disturbing to me precisely because the ends almost always justify the means to them, and to that degree I have a problem with you.
Also, I feel, you are prone to assuming Big Bad Conspiracy and strong ideological motivation in others.
One of the disturbing subthreads of the whole BADSITES debate -- I am not the first to point this out, and I may have more to say about it tomorrow -- was that anyone who argued too strongly against it was eventually branded as a "Wikipedia Review participant" or a "troll" or a "sockpuppet", and then dismissed.
Please don't do this sort of thing.
Dan Tobias was right to criticize BADSITES, and JzG's continuing attempts to paint Dan as a Wikipedia Review participant or a tireless crank didn't change the truth of Dan's arguments. Similarly, your criticism of Alec as an ideologue (a label he first used on himself, of course) doesn't change the truth of his.
Also, in the current debate, the issue is about one or more administrators -- Durova, and perhaps others -- for whom their end justified their means. So there's plenty of this to go around.