On 6/28/07, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:04:25 -0400, "Ron Ritzman" ritzman@gmail.com wrote:
These are the people who are claiming they were "abused" when the only thing that happened to them was that they were prevented from doing "X" on Wikipedia which is "just a website". How does this compare with people who suffer real abuse in real life?
Indeed. And in most cases X is self-promotion. But there are cases where long-term trends in admin actions could do with critiquing, and I don't mind being the subject of such a critique. It is not especially surprising that the contributions thus far are mainly from frustrated vanity spammers, since frustrating vanity spammers is one of the things I am known for. Rootology does seem to want to rise above the level of assuming that every action not backed by three months of ArbCom deliberation is necessarily evil.
That said, we can already identify Gregory Kohs, Jonathan Barber and Jon Awbrey laying out their grudges for all the world to see yet again.
...And, so far, some effort made to ameliorate that.
It does give me hope that we can get a functional external critic/gadfly site which is working with a reasonable set of assumptions.