--- Jim Cecropia jcecropia@mail.com wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: Rick giantsrick13@yahoo.com
--- "Blair P. Houghton" blair@houghton.net
wrote:
One of my favorite parts of the whole debacle
was
when GeorgeStepanek claimed I was a newbie. His
account is dated
December 10. Mine is dated January 1, but if I
look around I can find
edits I made over a year ago without having
created a login.
Quite the guffaw around my keyboard, I can
assure
you.
Jim Cecropia, please note this. Your apologetics
for
him can end now.
RickK
Well, that's kind of a tepid smoking gun. I thought you were going to catch him admitting he was Usama bin Laden or something.
If you've read my posts, I've made two points: (1) I believe in engaging "problem" users, not banning them; I've said much the same about others users (172, GBWR, Rei come to mind) that I've been at polar opposites with; (2) 3RR is a new and abusive procedure in a Wikipedia that is moving to control minority users instead of improving the content.
Your post here illustrates part of the problem. If you can "prove" Blair is a bad guy (and assert that I am trying to "prove" him a good guy) you don't have to deal with the substantive issues. I think that's called a straw man, and a sort of convoluted way of begging the question.
--C
I think his emails speak for themselves. He came in here with a chip on his shoulder, he keeps making attacks on even the people who are trying to work with him, you keep saying, "He's just a newbie that we need to make concessions to." He objects to the idea that he's a newbie and claims to have been around for about a year and half. He therefore knows the Wikipedia philosophy of Wikiquette and assume good faith, and yet he continues to write these nasty emails in which he's the only person right in the entire world.
RickK
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