[WikiEN-l] JzG's banning Private Musings regarding BADSITES debate

[Brian Salter-Duke]

On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 09:21:11AM -0400, Alec Conroy wrote:
> > joshua.zelinsky wrote:
> >
> > For the record, the link that we actually care about is this one:
> > http://lockerbiecase.blogspot.com/2007/10/wikipedia-and-lockerbie.html
> >. It may be instructive examine what the link itself actually says
> 
> The sadly comical irony is, for anyone teetering on the brink of
> psychosis, I can't imagine what more we, as an institution, could have
> done to push people into believing  allegations.  Seriously...  If we
> had all gotten together at a secret location and brainstormed for days
> on how to, as a prank, try to convince the world that SV = LM = MI5
> agent who is controlling Wikipedia,  we could never have come up with
> anything better than what we've actually done--
> 
> * Suppressing mere mention of the allegation,  even after it's on slashdot,
> * Deleting good faith questions of slashdot readers asking what's up,
> * Trying to delete links to ANY site where somebody might accidentally
> stumble upon the SV=LM=MI5 story, or even sites that link to sites
> that might make the allegation
> * Trying to indef block and otherwise attack anyone who resist the purges.
> 
> You couldn't WRITE a better conspiracy theory than this.   Our
> behavior has been a recipe for how to increase the population of
> tin-foil-hat wearers.
> 
> And of course, it's actually all fueled by compassion and
> defensiveness, not by any conspiracy.  But woe to anyone out there in
> internet land who might be off their meds-- they must be having quite
> a ride.
> 
> Alec

Well said. We really are handling these situations badly and we need to
develop a much more nuanced approach.

Brian.
 
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