[WikiEN-l] Missed Opportunities to have avoided the Durova Case

[Durova]

One of the things that isn't included in this thread is hte email
Durova sent to the list.  If you haven't seen it, go read it, and
you'll see why we're all so stressed out by this.  There isn't a
person on the encyclopedia who couldn't be banned by this sort of
kangaroo court, if someone had an ax to grind.  And if the discussions
are secret, they'll never even know they were being suspected--
they'll just wake up banned one day, just like !!.

Durova DID post the "evidence" to the list, and members of that list
DID reply back to her "enthusiastically endorsing" the block. (or so
she says, and I believe her).

Even if she didn't explicitly propose banning, she did explicitly
accuse !! of being a sockpuppet of a WR user.  And what do we do with
Sockpuppets of WR users?  Just because she didn't say the magic word
"I'm gonna ban them", it was obvious where it was going.  Anyone who
read hte email and responded with anything other than "Are you crazy,
this is NOT sufficient evidence to prove he's a sockpuppet" needs
looking at, because I think the community wouldn't trust their
judgment anymore than it trusts Durova's.
Alec
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Alec, although you may not realize it, you continue to articulate the same
logical errors I spoke about before.  Really, this kind of hyperbole is
unhelpful.  If my block created a chilling environment, then the collective
effect of loose cannon speculation such as this is at least as bad.
Especially when raised so persistently.

I'm tired now, and just finished a long post that had to get sent to this
list in several segments.  I have other things to do.  Please do me the
courtesy of supposing that I'm not misleading you.  The list is a red
herring.  I've said so enough times.  I have other things to do with my life
than continue to repeat that.

-Durova