[WikiEN-l] To have or to have not power -- "giggle," "giggle"

[The Mangoe]

On 6/18/07, jayjg <jayjg99 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/18/07, The Mangoe <the.mangoe at gmail.com> wrote:
> > You know Jayjg, when you use phrases like "whining conspiracy-mongers
> > blathering on wikien-l", you present me with a choice between thinking
> > that you don't understand how abusive your language is-- or that you
> > do understand.

> Mangoe/Papaya, I'm tired of being abused; tired of you and your WR
> crew spinning ever more fanciful conspiracy theories with me at the
> center, or near-center, of some vast web of nefarious deeds, all
> designed to forward some hideous outcome. It's bad enough that it goes
> on on WR, but I shouldn't have to put up with it on the wikien-l list.

And you aren't having to put up with it, as far as I can tell, unless
someone else here uses a different name on WR that I don't know about,
which is certainly possible. Part of the problem here is that you
persist in inflating a naggling concern about privacy and power,
coupled with questions about something you did, into a vendetta on the
part of your favorite villains. As best I can tell, they aren't
important here except as someone you need to be able to ban should
they reappear.

Your exaggerations here simply point back to the same thing: you
aren't acting like someone whom I would trust, so I can see why CW
would have preferred to edit through TOR. Part of me makes me think I
ought to abandom my own user name, except I suspect there would be an
attempt to try to ferret out the various IPs I would then use and tie
them together into a single user, to be exposed publicly in some admin
action.

Taking privacy seriously means not delving into someone's reasons for
that privacy too much. Right now the only substantial rationale is
that of identifying sockpuppets, which I sort of understand, but also
think is probably not as necessary as is being claimed. For an admin
with a named account, I just don't see the risk. The powers are
attached to the name, so taking away the powers has nothing to do with
the IP.