On 6/16/05, Andrew Venier avenier@venier.net wrote:
Gregory Maxwell wrote:
This sort of disrespectful language reflects poorly on the project. It's not acceptable to bait people with such jabs just so you can yell 'look see' when the victim meets your incivility with more incivility.
I was kind of confused to see this post right after this one:
Gregory Maxwell wrote:
Oh I know, we'll have a wikisockpuppet test: We will send ninjas to go kill the suspected puppeteer, and if the socks never edit again we'll know we were right!
I have certainty made mistakes before, but I don't see where I am criticising anyone with the above. I was pointing giving an exagerated example of how the only means we have to detect a good sock with certanty are bound to cause more harm then they stop.
Had I been replying to someone complaining about sockpuppets, I could see how my words would have been read as mocking. But in this case, who could I been mocking? ...
In any case the sockpuppet issue is actually a hard one, and I don't think anyone with the courage to wade those waters is deserving of mockery, ... even if I disagree with their conclusions or methods.