On 19/10/2007, William Pietri <william(a)scissor.com> wrote:
As well, some people like conflict, and are eternally
in the
will-not-make-nice state. The best solution I've found, short of calling
the police, is to be relentlessly friendly and upbeat. If they can't get
your goat and can't get you to fight back, they get bored and go bother
somebody else. Eventually.
If carefully applied, by the way, this has even worked on quite a few
of the ones I'd quite definitely class as "lunatic stalkers" rather
than merely "disaffected outsiders." Not all, but enough.
It also avoids the problem of wrestling with pigs in mud. Will,
although Kathryn Cramer's POV-pushing and defense of such was and is
odious, you completely blew the high ground by getting into the mud
with her. She would have blown it all by herself, but you managed to
blow it worse. And failed to realise that every action you take as an
admin with respect to outsiders is taken as being from a
representative of Wikipedia.
- d.