[WikiEN-l] I better shut up (was vfd RFC)

[Ryan Delaney]

I don't want this mailing list to degenerate into a flame war here, but 
I really think you have no cause to be acting indignant. A simple "I'm 
sorry about the trouble I caused, it won't happen again" would have made 
me, and a lot of other people, forget about this entirely. But what 
you're saying here makes me think that once you are unblocked, it very 
well might happen again. That prospect scares me, and makes me think you 
ought to be blocked a lot longer. Your crack about "liberal stereotypes" 
is just a bitter, bigoted jab that is icing on the cake.

We're trying to make an encyclopedia here. You disrupted it -- 
_enormously_ -- just to make a point.

- Ryan

Poor, Edmund W wrote:

>Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later. I got blocked by Kim Bruning - until 21:08 today, a very specific time.
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>No good deed goes unpunished: I had just finished apologizing for the VFD deletion, and was just beginning to make some progress with Uninvited Company when I got the shock of my young (Wikipedian) life.
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>Well, at least now I can say I know how it feels to be blocked (and without warning, to boot).
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>I guess this is a bigger deal than I thought. Not that I really understand it all, I'm too simple and naïve. I guess I fit the liberal stereotype of Christians being "ignorant and easily-led", because I'm going to do just what I was told to do, i.e., shut up until the block expires.
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>Your obed't servant,
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>Ed Poor
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