On 5/24/06, jayjg <jayjg99(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 5/24/06, Sarah <slimvirgin(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 5/24/06, BJörn Lindqvist
<bjourne(a)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(a)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