On 10/21/03 12:15 AM, "Erik Moeller" erik_moeller@gmx.de wrote:
Cunc-
No, I would not ban Jtdirl myself, and I have never said that I would. But it is beginning to look like a necessity. I will look at this again when Jimbo is back and if I deem it necessary, supply the evidence to him that would support a temporary ban.
Oh, and this still belongs on wikien-l.
Sounds like a threat to me.
Hardly surprising, as you see every ban as a threat. However, this is the proper procedure for banning users on Wikipedia, whether you like it or not.
I was responding to Ed Poor's mistaken belief that you weren't serious about initiating banning procedures on Jtdirl.
("No, Erik would never do that -- no more than I would. In a moment of anger, anyone might 'think aloud' and talk about doing something. But that is not a threat.
Saying, "I wish Bush was dead" or even "Someone ought to kill the president" is NOT THE SAME as an assassination threat. Sheldon Rampton's wish that the software would give him the ability to send a million volts through my chair is not a murder threat.
Erik and I both spoke (rashly, perhaps) of a DESIRE to temporarily block or even permanently ban contributors who use Wikipedia in ways we didn't like.
But Jimbo knows we wouldn't really do that.")
Unless I misinterpreted Ed.