Andrew Gray wrote:
On 09/03/07, Delirium delirium@hackish.org wrote:
Mark Williamson wrote:
Because you are a racist :-) You probably even deny the indigenous status of the Ainu.
I would hope that's not the reason... if we were to block people for holding objectionable opinions (even exceedingly objectionable ones), I could submit a very long list of names of people to be blocked, including many admins!
To paraphrase Harry Truman:
"[They] blocked him for continually trolling, not for being a dumb son-of-a-bitch - which he was, but that's not against the law for people on the internet. If it was, three quarters of them would be in jail"
Unfortunately on this mailinglist and on local wikipedia's the practise of shooting the messenger and shooting off anything we do not want to hear is practised more and more widely. Also putting our heads in the sands like an ostrich is.
The tactics used are simple:
Tactic 1: We see someone post something we do not like, or we do not like the poster in the first place. We then start digging up past transgressions by the poster and with that we kill the topic because it becomes a flamefest and no one is talking about the topic anymore.
Tactic 2: We just tell someone to solve the problem locally, even though it is the reason it couldn't be solved locally in the first place that the poster is talking about it.
These tactics are more and more employed, both on this mailinglist, other wikimedia mailinglists, and on the foundation projects.
Please read about a topic, do not charge the poster.
Waerth