Tim Landscheidt wrote:
I find the idea of singling someone out who defended
himself
against the (false) accusation that he spammed wikis while
not muttering a word about the accuser's behaviour trou-
bling. Shushing someone because he said "No! I don't want
to be treated this way!" in a way that reflects the per-
ceived infraction feels very wrong.
I'd say that using terms like "the accuser" and vaguely paraphrasing
("shut up" became "No! ...") is probably adding more heat than light.
The situation of users creating dozens or hundreds of local user pages
never sat well with me as it was a bad hack. And it was entirely
predictable that one day we'd be in a situation in which we'd have global
user pages and the people who used a bot or scripts to create all of these
local user pages would be annoyed by their own choices. Here we are.
In a lot of online communities, showing up and creating only a user page
(or user profile) is pretty questionable. Calling it spam is too extreme;
I agree and I apologized for using the term "un-spam."
MZMcBride