On 5/29/07, Blu Aardvark jeffrey.latham@gmail.com wrote:
Phil, drop the bullshit FUD. Nobody "conspired" to call the police in your town. Some unidentified person, who may or may not have been a Wikipedia Review user (but was almost certainly a reader) is to blame for that.
IIRC, people speculated that it might be possible to get Phil into difficulties with this - and then someone did it (probably amorrow, given his well known sociopathy, but not necessarily).
Perhaps not enough to rise to the level of criminal conspiracy, but still ...
And, let's be honest here, there was a slightly legitimate concern. Don't try to paint yourself as a victim.
Legitimate concern? BS. Wikipedia Review readers saw an opportunity to cause trouble for someone they loathed, and ran with it.
The obsession with certain individual Wikipedia editors is one of the most disturbing things about the site, frankly. Unfortunately, because of the widely-held feeling there that Wikipedia unjustly outs, publicises and discusses individuals who don't want the attention, there appears to be a belief that obsessive interest in the lives and personal details of Wikipedia users/admins they don't like is fair revenge.
-Matt