[WikiEN-l] [[Daniel Brandt]] is gone again

[Ray Saintonge]

Anthony wrote:

>On 6/15/07, Andrew Gray wrote:
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>>On 15/06/07, Anthony wrote:
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>>>On 6/15/07, Andrew Gray wrote:
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>>>>The purpose is to stop the first google hit on someone's name being
>>>>"self-promotional vanity tripe", which is a little cruel even when
>>>>they did write the article - and when, as so often happens, they
>>>>*didn't*, it's just nasty.
>>>>
>>>>Most AFDs on people are filled with not particularly nice comments.
>>>>It's dine we keep them for internal purposes, but it seems fair to
>>>>stop leaving them obviously public to be stumbled upon. Blanking
>>>>doesn't hide that there was a debate or hide the decision; what it
>>>>*does* do is hide the most stupid excesses of the discussion.
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>>>The same could be said of requests for arbitration.  Can we blank them too?
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>>Well, we routinely dump frivolous ones...
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>Sure, but I wasn't talking about "frivolous ones".  Rather, I was
>thinking of one in particular which contains such libel as "Anthony is
>a troll if there ever was one" and "I find Anthony a bit disturbed, to
>say the least".  It's really fun to have that as the second Google hit
>for one's name.
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I'm glad to see that you appreciate your true worth. ;-)

The more over the top a comment, the less the likelihood that it will be 
believed, especially if there is no reason given for making that statement.

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