[WikiEN-l] Former Wikimedia employee was a felon.

[joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu]

Quoting Stephen Bain <stephen.bain at gmail.com>:

> On Dec 17, 2007 1:43 AM, Eugene van der Pijll <eugene at vanderpijll.nl> wrote:
>>
>> By kicked, do you mean "banned" (= stifling dissenting opinion) or "put
>> on moderation" (= preventing the crap from flooding the mailing list)?
>
> Filth is not a "dissenting opinion", and you insult people who really
> hold dissenting opinions by suggesting it is. How is it that people
> cannot comprehend that it's possible to disagree without descending
> into spiteful tirades?

Well, many of Moreschi's other posts were point of fact not spiteful 
tirades. A
single outburst should not be by itself sufficient reason for this result.
Moderation makes far more sense than banning.