[WikiEN-l] Rootology's new site

[Fred Bauder]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Todd Allen [mailto:toddmallen at gmail.com]
>Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 01:31 AM
>To: 'English Wikipedia'
>Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Rootology's new site
>
>Ron Ritzman wrote:
>> Sometimes I wonder, with the exception of a few BLP issues, can one
>> really be "abused" on Wikipedia the same way they can be abused in
>> real life[1]? After all, it's just an Internet website and not even a
>> social networking one. If you can't have your way here then pick up
>> your ball and go play elsewhere.
>>
>> This is one of the reasons I left the anti spam newsgroups. As much as
>> I hate spam, when it comes right down to it, it's just email.
>>
>> 1. Ironically, the closest to "real life" abuse one can run into with
>> Wikipedia is being outed by one of the detractor sites. Let's see if
>> this new one enforces their "no meatspacing" policy.
>>
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>I don't think you're correct there. A lot of people use hobbies, be that
>editing Wikipedia, rebuilding classic cars, collecting postage stamps,
>whatever the case may be, because they personally enjoy it and it keeps
>their mind sharp. Ruining the ability to do that for them, whether it's
>dropping their stamp collection in a puddle or running them off of
>Wikipedia, is not a harmless action. If it were simply "just a website",
>and no one cares, we wouldn't have a blocking policy, we'd just block
>whoever we damn well like (or don't like). Just a website, right?
>
>That isn't by any means to say people don't take it way too seriously
>(again, as is the case with many people and their hobbies of all
>stripes). But it's not true you can't do harm at all. This isn't
>Counterstrike, where you're only blowing up pixels, there are living,
>breathing people on the other end of the line.
>

People who are here to do productive work should be strongly supported.

Fred