[WikiEN-l] Quitting Wikipedia and wanted you to know why.

[Stephen Streater]

On 8 Oct 2006, at 13:44, Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:

> On Sat, 7 Oct 2006 18:50:40 -0500, "Parker Peters"
> <onmywayoutster at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The "original" account was claimed to be NoLongerScieno (blocked for
>> "name..") and the second account was ScienoSitter.
>> Possible sockpuppet? Certainly.
>> Worthy of blocking under name block? Maybe.
>> Wrongful to tag as a "vandalism only" account and wrongful to  
>> block for
>> being a sockpuppet of a username block? Definitely.
>
> I reviewed the edits of both accounts, 100% vandalism (POV-pushing).
> Righteous block.  Next case, please.

The right to complain never meant
the right to get your way. The trick
is to stop complaining when you're
wrong, rather than to move around
annoying ever more people.

At least some of this discussion has
been interesting, but I still think the
system is less broken than some
people make out.