On 17 Oct 2007 at 16:58:02 +0000, fredbaud@waterwiki.info wrote:
Please don't republish personal attacks on other users.
But you just did, not too long ago; you posted a screenshot of the version of the Michael Moore site that included a personal attack on a Wikipedian, a version that's no longer in place on the Moore site itself. Like many people on all sides of the debates about so-called "attack sites", you've run into the problem that it's difficult to conduct a reasonable discussion of such sites without, at least sometimes, getting specific about what is in them, giving links, quotes, screenshots, and so on. Without this, you're left using vague generalities and contrived fake examples, which don't work very well to truly explain to people what is actually on the sites being discussed and why people have such strong feelings about them. Thus, even strong opponents of attack sites have sometimes linked to them; I gave a few examples of this on the evidence page of the ArbCom case. The idea that all links and references to those sites under any circumstances are always wrong does not come naturally even to many people whose main aim is to express how evil they think those sites are.