One of the things that isn't included in this thread is hte email Durova sent to the list. If you haven't seen it, go read it, and you'll see why we're all so stressed out by this. There isn't a person on the encyclopedia who couldn't be banned by this sort of kangaroo court, if someone had an ax to grind. And if the discussions are secret, they'll never even know they were being suspected-- they'll just wake up banned one day, just like !!.

Durova DID post the "evidence" to the list, and members of that list DID reply back to her "enthusiastically endorsing" the block. (or so she says, and I believe her).

Even if she didn't explicitly propose banning, she did explicitly accuse !! of being a sockpuppet of a WR user. And what do we do with Sockpuppets of WR users? Just because she didn't say the magic word "I'm gonna ban them", it was obvious where it was going. Anyone who read hte email and responded with anything other than "Are you crazy, this is NOT sufficient evidence to prove he's a sockpuppet" needs looking at, because I think the community wouldn't trust their judgment anymore than it trusts Durova's. Alec ****** Alec, although you may not realize it, you continue to articulate the same logical errors I spoke about before. Really, this kind of hyperbole is unhelpful. If my block created a chilling environment, then the collective effect of loose cannon speculation such as this is at least as bad. Especially when raised so persistently.

I'm tired now, and just finished a long post that had to get sent to this list in several segments. I have other things to do. Please do me the courtesy of supposing that I'm not misleading you. The list is a red herring. I've said so enough times. I have other things to do with my life than continue to repeat that.

-Durova