[WikiEN-l] Re: This isn't a theoretical issue; its real.

[Anthere]

Stan Shebs wrote:
> Anthere wrote:
> 
>> Stan Shebs wrote:
>>
>>> Robert wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> The fact that not a single person here seems to care scares
>>>> the hell out of me. If it can be done to one person, it can
>>>> be done to any of us. (Just ask some of the many
>>>> well-documented victims of the Internet Scientology wars,
>>>> who have been threatened, stalked, and whose lives have
>>>> been damaged by maniancs from the Church of Scientology.)
>>>> This isn't a theoretical issue; its real.
>>>>
>>> You kind of lost all your support and credibility when you called
>>> all of us Nazis, and failed to apologize for it subsequently. Why
>>> then would anybody pay attention to anything you have to say?
>>>
>>> Stan
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Well... I *do* care.
>> Yes, Robert said wrong things and should have apogized later.
>> Yes, Robert gave his name himself, so it is not outing.
>> But, I do care that someone feels he is threatened in his real life 
>> because of his wikipedia activity.
> 
> 
> He *says* he feels threatened, but given his track record of abuse,
> bullying, and misrepresentation, I'll bet a dollar he doesn't
> really feel threatened at all - I think he's just using this as a
> technique to fish for sympathy from the gullible.
> 
> If I genuinely felt threatened, I would go to the police, not
> post lengthy complaining emails to a public mailing list, where
> there is not one single person who has any power or capability
> to protect me from an actual would-be criminal. It's not like
> WPers are going to fly over from Australia or wherever, arm
> themselves, and stand guard at my front door.
> 
> Stan

I think that whether an editor is a good standing one in the community 
or not, as soon as we accept them as editors, we should held similar 
standards. If we just stick to facts, I'd say a threat stays a threat 
whoever receive it. In front of two users threatened, I do not think it 
is correct to help one and to be rude to the other.

So, I am glad of the AC decision.