On 6/11/06, Phil Sandifer Snowspinner@gmail.com wrote:
But, after thinking about it, its my belief that the Foundation owes its editors and admins the protections it can give. And one of those is offering to delete Brandt's article in exchange for the removal of the Hive Mind site.
As others have pointed out, this would incentivize the use of similar strategies. In fact, it would lead to a collaboration on a guidebook how to blackmail Wikipedia. This potential outcome is by far worse than Brandt's continuing harassment. That said, the best response to Brandt is, quite frankly, not to feed him.
For difficult admin situations, there's always [[WP:SPARTACUS]].
Erik