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

[Doc glasgow]

Slim Virgin wrote:
> 
> As others have pointed out, the five editors she
> discussed it with may not even realize themselves who they are,
> because Durova may have mistaken no objections for positive feedback
> -- or she may have thought  that feedback about her case study was the
> same as feedback about a block. So the implication that there are five
> editors somewhere in hiding, letting Durova face the music alone,
> misses the point that they may have said X, but Durova heard Y. There
> is therefore no point in conducting a witchhunt.
> 
> Sarah
> 
> Absolutely, however, the hunt for the others on the grassy knoll is now
> now doomed to enter the wikipedia mythology. Unfortunately, this whole
> incident simply demonstrates the corrosive effects of paranoia, conspiracy
> theories, and the obsession with "outing" and purging evildoers. Avoiding
> paranoia is simply "Assume Good Faith" writ large. 
> 
> Perhaps it's time for us all to say "I'm Spartacus" - and don't bother
> throwing me in the lake, because I float.
> 
> Doc
> 
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