[WikiEN-l] Nazi userboxes

[George Herbert]

On 11/30/06, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
>
> Rob wrote:
> > On 11/30/06, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Remember, there is a difference between modern neo-nazi parties and
> >> the German Nazi party of the 1930s and 40s. They may have the same
> >> political beliefs, but they are different parties. This user is not a
> >> mass murderer, he just happens to agree with one on political issues.
> >
> > If anything, the modern Nazi advocate is worse, because he or she has
> > no excuse for not knowing what the Nazi agenda is really about.  A
> > modern Nazi is of course not a mass murderer, merely a wannabe mass
> > murderer, but the only difference between the two is skill and
> > opportunity.
>
> In this case, it is not so much about Nazi or non-Nazi.  It's about
> trolling.  Don't feed the trolls.
>
> Do you know what trolls like to eat?  They thrive on getting good people
> to fight with each other.  Yum Yum.  It's boring.  Best to treat it as
> boring and move on.
>
> --Jimbo
>

Nuking this guy didn't harm having accurate or balanced coverage of
Nazi-ism.

The "rest of us" tend to be in situations where kicking people off the
project without due process is a pretty bad thing to have happen, but I
can't disagree that simply being done with him was probably best for us
all.  Good call.


-- 
-george william herbert
george.herbert at gmail.com