Daniel R. Tobias schrieb:
On 5 Jul 2007 at 03:42:01 +0000, "Fred
Bauder" <fredbaud(a)waterwiki.info>
wrote:
Part of the ban is posturing
So it's kind of like the "security theatre" we have to endure every time
we travel by air... lots of
silly rules, enforced in an arbitrary, draconian
way, with all sorts of
inconvenience to innocent
people, which probably doesn't do much or
anything at all to prevent
actual terrorism, but
which show everybody that the authorities are
Doing Something.
> So it is very much a matter of saying and meaning:
>
> We will make every effort to support our contributors and to defeat
attempts
to harass them.
...and we don't care how many contributors we need to harrass in order
to
accomplish this!
KamrynMatika seems possibly to have been run off in this way now.. at
least,
she's blanked
out her user and talk pages and hasn't made
any appearance in a couple
of days, after
getting into conflict with the
"draconian-link-ban" people.
Dan
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Dan, please don't take this the wrong way, but KamrynMatika's 245
mainspace edits are rather negligible compared to the tens of thousands
of edits the most attacked Wikipedians have contributed. If protecting
several of our more prolific editors from attacks means that some fairly
new users get disgruntled (which I do not quite understand in the first
place), then, well, that's an acceptable price to pay.
I'm not quite sure how blocking KamrynMatika for citing a page which most
sensible people would think could constitute a reliable source (given the
situation) resulted in "protecting several of our more prolific editors from
attacks".
Johnleemk