On 7/5/07, Adrian aldebaer@googlemail.com wrote:
Daniel R. Tobias schrieb:
On 5 Jul 2007 at 03:42:01 +0000, "Fred Bauder" fredbaud@waterwiki.info
wrote:
Part of the ban is posturing
So it's kind of like the "security theatre" we have to endure every time
we travel by air... lots of
silly rules, enforced in an arbitrary, draconian way, with all sorts of
inconvenience to innocent
people, which probably doesn't do much or anything at all to prevent
actual terrorism, but
which show everybody that the authorities are Doing Something.
So it is very much a matter of saying and meaning:
We will make every effort to support our contributors and to defeat
attempts to harass them.
...and we don't care how many contributors we need to harrass in order
to accomplish this!
KamrynMatika seems possibly to have been run off in this way now.. at
least, she's blanked
out her user and talk pages and hasn't made any appearance in a couple
of days, after
getting into conflict with the "draconian-link-ban" people.
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Dan, please don't take this the wrong way, but KamrynMatika's 245 mainspace edits are rather negligible compared to the tens of thousands of edits the most attacked Wikipedians have contributed. If protecting several of our more prolific editors from attacks means that some fairly new users get disgruntled (which I do not quite understand in the first place), then, well, that's an acceptable price to pay.
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Thanks.