Sean Barrett wrote:
Ray Saintonge stated for the record:
Luigi30 wrote:
So at what point does attempting to assert your copyright become "making a legal threat"?
Saying "you'll hear from my lawyer" before telling them kindly to remove it, I imagine.
I guess we all react to this kind of thing differently. I don't interpret legal threats as much of a big deal. Outlawing them seems a bit like changing the rules of poker to forbid bluffing. I prefer to respond with comments like, "I dare you!" or more simply, " :-P ." I refuse to be intimidated by such nonsense.
Ec
The reason for getting rid of them is that a person who has stated (almost certainly as a bluff, but possibly not) his desire and intention of either ruining an editor's life or of financially destroying the project is clearly not an asset to the encyclopedia. We don't simply want someone who want to do us harm to have write-access to the sum-total of human knowledge.
Perhaps then the views of the treatened person should be taken into account. Some oof us are more thick-skinned than others.
Ec