[WikiEN-l] Subject: Re: Oh shit, Slashdot is an attack site!

[Durova]

"Durova, I greatly respect your work on this, but slashdot is not a
minor venue. I highly regret such a posting appeared there, but it
did."

You're right; Slashdot itself isn't minor.  I was referring to the
publications the Slashdot conversation was based upon.  Jimbo had lost some
credibility from his initial support of Essjay last spring, so when I saw
the inevitable comparisons I put together a set of links and diffs to
demonstrate how baseless the accusations really were.  If anyone cares to
check up on it I had been among the first to call for Essjay's resignation
(if not the very first).

The main thing, I thought, was to put forward enough verifiable information
that no legitimate journalist would touch the story.  This was a weird
conspiracy theory, one of many such things on the Internet, and it really
didn't hold together.

-Durova