On 10/12/05, Poor, Edmund W Edmund.W.Poor@abc.com wrote:

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We can sympathize more, of course, but we need to maintain one standard for all.

Tony replied:

What worries me here is that we patently *don't*. Should we ever block an editor who's clearly demonstrating good faith, is not violating any policy of Wikipedia, but isn't complying absolutely 100% with all the guidelines? Of course not, you say, that's absurd, we'd never do such a thing.

But this is precisely what was done to Maoririder twice within one week of his arriving here.

Why does it happen? What unacknowledged bit of vindictiveness existing in the human spirit enabled this to be done by people who told themselves that they were doing so for the best of motives?

In my religion, doing a bad thing with a "good motive" still counts as a sin. Results count.

Uncle Ed