Seed of story: http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=1116 What happened next: http://pulpdecameron.livejournal.com/52175.html http://pulpdecameron.livejournal.com/52385.html Story at BoingBoing: http://www.boingboing.net/2006/05/22/u_florida_cops_ask_f.html What's the proper gamer term for when you mount a fiendishly clever attack on someone and get handed your arse, on a plate, with garnish?

Indeed. This should serve as a good object lesson to anybody who tries to bring up the whole "Wikipedia Review is a legitimate criticism site" business again.

From: wikien-l-bounces(a)Wikipedia.org [mailto:wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Tony Sidaway On 5/23/06, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote: with garnish? Sure, but this was bad for Phil.

From: wikien-l-bounces(a)Wikipedia.org [mailto:wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Theresa Knott

On 5/23/06, Peter Mackay <peter.mackay(a)bigpond.com> wrote: No WR look like complete twats over this.

Can't say the cops, Let's see he blocks them from editing a website?

Nevertheless, Snowspinner got harassed by the fuzz and WR didn't. If you judge real life by whoever thinks up the coolest reply after thinking about it for a while, then you spend too much time in front of your computer. Personally, I can take any amount of clever dick criticism coming over email or the web, but get a couple of policefolk sitting down at my kitchen table and hamfistedly investigating my life, and it's no longer fun.

I don't. The person who thinks there's no such thing as bad publicity hasn't been around long enough. IMHO the average reader will see Snowspinner as foolish to post such stuff on the interweb and the police just doing their job.

This is the way that news reports on police-investigated internet fiction go, because that's a better story then the other way round. Everyone likes to see an egghead brought down, especially in Florida.

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Glad to see such refreshing honesty from you.

WR isn't as homongenous as all that. Some of them are wacko to begin with. Nevertheless, Snowspinner got harassed by the fuzz and WR didn't. If you judge real life by whoever thinks up the coolest reply after thinking about it for a while, then you spend too much time in front of your computer. Personally, I can take any amount of clever dick criticism coming over email or the web, but get a couple of policefolk sitting down at my kitchen table and hamfistedly investigating my life, and it's no longer fun. That, too. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)Wikipedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Best, Phil Sandifer sandifer(a)english.ufl.edu AIM: Snowspinner You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here.