[WikiEN-l] Parker Peters

The Cunctator cunctator at gmail.com
Sat Feb 24 23:38:20 UTC 2007


On 2/23/07, George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/23/07, John Lee <johnleemk at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The moderators have agreed to ban this user from subscribing to the list.
> > Since he was not making any positive contributions through his membership,
> > it has been revoked.
>
> This is sort of sad; gadflys and contrary opinions help strengthen
> projects, and on his good days, he was on the "probably making me
> think enough that it's positive overall" side of things.
>
> But I see why, from the bad days.
>
> We need a better class of gadfly.

Speaking as an upper class gadfly, I have to say that Parker Peters
wasn't that bad and shouldn't have been banned.

People need to learn how to killfile users they don't like, instead of
appealing to moderators.



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