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[joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu]

Quoting "Daniel R. Tobias" <dan at tobias.name>:

> On 10 Nov 2007 at 14:13:16 -0500, joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu wrote:
>
>> Although I disagree with Guy as to how we should treat people who are
>> willing to
>> deal with them, it is posts like the above that make me have some
>> sympathy with
>> Guy's position. Spend too much time on WR and you'll forget what 
>> these people
>> have tried to do to Wikipedia and the lives they've ruined in the 
>> process. And
>> frankly, to compare good faith attempts to keep this project safe from the
>> people who have explicitly stated they intend to harm to the Inquisition
>> demonstrates a lack of perspective at many different levels starting 
>> with the
>> minor detail that we're not killing anyone.
>
> You take me to task for hyperbole (a valid point; is McCarthyism a
> sufficiently non-murderous analogy to use instead of the
> Inquisition?), but commit some of it yourself when you refer to lives
> being ruined.  If anybody considers their life ruined because of
> anything that went on either on Wikipedia or an anti-Wikipedia forum,
> then they're taking all of this stuff way too seriously.

Bagley, Brandt, Amorrow and others have engaged in real life harassment 
that has
ruined lives. I don't know if your ignorance of this matter is willful or not,
but either way it does you and your position no credit.