[WikiEN-l] Featured editors?

[David Gerard]

On 10/11/2007, Matthew Brown <morven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 10, 2007 1:15 PM, Daniel R. Tobias <dan at tobias.name> wrote:

> > 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.

> If this behavior did not extend beyond Wikipedia and anti-Wikipedia
> forums, it would be a lot less harmful than it is. Wikipedia Review
> participants have proven themselves quite willing to try and get
> people fired from their jobs, for instance, simply because the person
> was a Wikipedia admin - even in cases when they had no conflict with
> the person themselves.


Indeed. Dan, don't be dense.


- d.