[WikiEN-l] Self-sensorship, how far should it go?

[Daniel R. Tobias]

On 1 Aug 2007 at 17:01:39 -0400, Rob <gamaliel8 at gmail.com> wrote:

> If they are sensible, then why are they on Wikipedia Review?  While
> the sensible are not responsible for the insane and paranoid, if they
> willingly choose to participate in a forum where the insane and
> paranoid plot their attacks, what does that say about how sensible
> they supposedly are?  Wikipedia blocks its trolls, and if WR's
> defenders (and by defenders I mean both WR-ites and people who say
> "eh, they have some good people in the mess" or "they come up with the
> intelligent critique now and then") want people to take it seriously
> and not view it as an insane attack site, then WR should do the same.

Maybe they're there to find a forum where they can speak their mind 
without being labeled a "troll" for it?  Maybe the absence of the 
cliques and taboos of Wikipedia are sometimes considered to be a 
positive thing even by people not sharing the ideologies of the 
nutters in that site?


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