[WikiEN-l] Moderation on this mailing list

[Ray Saintonge]

Parker Peters wrote:

>There are any number of admin actions I do not have any problem with.
>Blocking of actual vandals, or even whole vandal IP ranges when there's
>something like a GNAA assault going on, I understand and agree with.
>
I don't think you're going to get much argument about this.  There is 
wide support for this from all sides involved in this debate.

>What I have problems with are admins who are (A) stuck up, (B) over-egoed,
>(C) dickish, or (D) abusive. Admins who insult users, or who fail to
>properly sanction other users who are insulting someone, or go over the top
>blocking/banning one person while excusing horrid behavior on the part of
>others towards that person.
>
This is the whole problem in a nutshell.  Until this fact gets properly 
impressed on those who sanction this kind of behaviour there will be no 
end to this kind of ongoing argument. 

I have not directly investigsated any of the specific allegations that 
Parker has made, and I don't intend to.  Nor am I interested in whether 
this or that particular admin is behaving abusively.  The generally 
poiaoned atmosphere that these zealots are instilling is more 
significant than any individual guilt.  The point is that it shouldn't 
be happening at all. 

Until we can find a way to deal seriously and severely with the 
behaviours that Parker mentioned we cannot hope to build the 
collaborative community that most of us profess to support.  Those of us 
who have invested serious amounts of time in these projects, and have 
thought deeply about its underlying principles despair just as much over 
the actions of the petty tyrants as over the actions of the vandals.

Ec