[WikiEN-l] Harassment sites

[joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu]

Quoting fredbaud at waterwiki.info:

>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Gerard [mailto:dgerard at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 01:29 PM
> To: 'English Wikipedia'
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Harassment sites
>
> On 16/10/2007, Steve Summit <scs at eskimo.com> wrote:
>
>> We are not, I hope, asking harassed editors to have a thick skin,
>> to ignore the harassment, to ignore it and hope it will go away.
>> *BUT*, if a harassed editor's skin is so papery thin that a
>> single link to some external harassment, inserted for reference
>> in a non-article-space discussion of that harassment, is
>> construed by that editor as cause for further anguish, I'm not
>> sure what we can do for that editor.  In particular: in the
>> process of discussing (not ignoring) the harassment and
>> formulating plans to minimize or eliminate it, we're going to
>> have to talk about it, and we're going to have to include links
>> where relevant, because links are as vital in web-based discourse
>> as bibliographic references are on paper.
>
>
> We have to recognise that in the present discussion, the degree of
> sensitivity has in fact reached the stage of actually being community
> *versus* encyclopedia content.
>
>
> - d.
>
> _______________________________________________
>
> Supporting our users and protecting them from harassment is just part 
> of our ongoing operation, kind of like keeping air in your tires if 
> you're going to ride a bicycle.
>
> Fred
>

But we don't take melt down the bicycle frame to make a new airpump for the
tires. (I may be stretching this analogy too far).