[WikiEN-l] Guy Chapman's commentary...

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On 21/08/07, Daniel R. Tobias <dan at tobias.name> wrote:
> On 21 Aug 2007 at 12:04:11 -0700, "George Herbert"
> <george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Discussed on one of the admin pages on-wiki, but JzG has some things
> > to say while on break...
> >
> > http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk/wiki/Me_and_Wikipedia
>
> He's got some points in there, but I have to disagree strenuously
> with the paragraph about Wikipedia not sufficiently protecting MONGO.
> Yes, MONGO has been trolled, but he has also continually fed the
> trolls, and many of his woes are self-inflicted.  As for Wikipedia
> not protecting him, I don't know what alternate universe that is
> written from, but the way I see it, he's always had a powerful clique
> circling their wagons around him every time he's (sometimes justly)
> criticized, and making sure that all the slings and arrows aimed at
> him bounce back and injure his critics instead.  After all that, he's
> still peeved because not everybody who has ever had a bad word to say
> about him has been summarily, permanently banned on just his say-so,
> and that, on a few occasions, a necessity to give due process to
> people he accuses of wrongdoing has been observed.  He and his
> friends have often been seen organizing "a sustained, vicious, well-
> orchestrated and relentless attack" against those who oppose him, but
> nobody can call them bullies without being labeled as a "troll".
>
> It's long past time that the rules of Wikipedia be enforced
> impartially on everybody, not with the double standard where the
> favored clique is always right and anybody opposing them is always
> wrong.
>
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Not feeding the 'trolls'?  That's how I lost one of my jobs.  One of
the assistant managers was hitting on me, and wouldn't stop no matter
how many times I politely told him I wasn't interested, or turned the
other way.  I should've slapped the jerk the first time he tried to
grope.  Instead, I tried to protect his reputation.

As it turned out, I ended up having to quit that job just to avoid
being fired.  My co-workers could've helped.  Instead, they just got
mad at me.  Typical.