On 6/11/06, Phil Sandifer Snowspinner@gmail.com wrote:
In my case, who I am is public knowledge, and I decided to make it that way. But that's not the case for everyone on Brandt's Hive Mind site. A lot of them are people who didn't accept their RFA expecting that they'd have their names, cities of residence, and photos released. Nobody on Wikipedia, I don't think, realized that accepting adminship meant painting a target on yourself, and, frankly, on your family and friends.
Pretty much anything you do online risks doing that.
The Foundation doesn't and can't provide admins with protection here. And we need protection. The other admins on this site should not get to go through what I did, or any of the far worse things that can and will eventually happen to us.
But, after thinking about it, its my belief that the Foundation owes its editors and admins the protections it can give. And one of those is offering to delete Brandt's article in exchange for the removal of the Hive Mind site. It's an awful trade. It's a horrible, awful trade. We should hate making it, and we should hate Brandt for forcing us to make it.
But we should make it. Because the consequences of not making it are just too dangerous.
-Phil
Not nearly as dangerous as the consequences of making it. Supose we do. Guess what the next person we piss off will do. And the next and the next.