[WikiEN-l] To: Jimmy Wales - Admin-driven death of Wikipedia

[Alphax (Wikipedia email)]

Ben Yates wrote:
>> Trolls complain about ArbCom being 'corrupt' because, rightly if they're
>> trolls, they don't get the results they want from it.
> 
> That strikes me as a dangerous line of thought -- "Trolls, by
> definition, are always wrong.  And the people who disagree with us
> must be trolls, because trolls are who we're fighting.  Therefore
> anyone who disagrees with us is wrong."  I'm not saying you've taken
> it to that extreme; more, I'm objecting to widening use of words like
> "troll" (and "meatpuppet") -- they make it too easy to class all
> opposing arguments as nonsense and all opposing people as not worth
> the time of day.
> 
> 

Well said.

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