On 07/04/07, Christiano Moreschi moreschiwikiman@hotmail.co.uk wrote:
It's infuriating that people who want nothing more than to build a free-content encyclopedia in relative peace and quiet have to chase their tails in this farcical manner just because some trolling jackass in Chicago announces he's going to top himself.
On the other hand, what else can we do? The headlines of "Guy kills himself while eminent Wikipedians did zilch" hardly sound promising.
It just infuriates me that Wikipedia can so easily be hijacked for attention-seeking like this.
This kind of thing is not specific to Wikipedia. Communities exist on the internet and all such communities can be faced with this. It is the price of having a community at all.