Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:
Well I'm sorry you interpreted it that way, it was not my intention. It is not an "anti-wiki" idea, any more than OTRS or IRC are anti-wiki ideas. Sometimes you need to allow people to let off steam or release hurt or explore a thought in some kind of privacy.
A major line is crossed when that "private letting-off of steam" results in administrators blocking users and then refusing to reveal why they did it, though. This wasn't just some private venting session that leaked.
If an administrator were to block someone with the explanation "I ran this by some people on an IRC channel and they okayed it, but I can't tell you who or where or why", that would quite rightly result in a furore. "Some people on an IRC channel" don't have any authority to okay anything.