On 5/24/06, jayjg jayjg99@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/24/06, Sarah slimvirgin@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/24/06, BJörn Lindqvist bjourne@gmail.com wrote:
So what you are claiming is that Adolfo Constanzo's poor immigrant family is relevant TO HIS CRIMES? That is nothing short of racism.
Don't be disingenuous.
Indeed. That was a disingenuous and dishonest accusation, and, frankly, typical trolling from this "contributor". Now that we have Jimbo's fiat on this, perhaps the list mods could get involved in fixing this as well.
Before "the list mods" (including me) do anything, they'd probably like to know exactly what they're doing (putting someone on moderation), why they're doing it, and have consensus that this is a desirable thing to do - probably by people emailing wikien-l-owner@wikipedia.org . The other thing to remember is that with moderation (as opposed to banning), we have to make a decision every mail that comes through, and it's quite difficult to say when a message is "trolling" or not. It would be easier to enforce a blanket rule like "no one may accuse each other of racism", for example.
It is probably better that people simply stop replying to trolls, or that you find other ways of controlling them.
Also, as I understood it, we only had Jimbo's support to ban Peter Mackay, which turned out to be unnecessary anyway.
Steve