[WikiEN-l] Cla68 blocked for asking question

[Daniel R. Tobias]

Jimbo has added a reply on [[Talk:Gary Weiss]] to the effect that the 
block might be "a tad excessive", but he still respects it under his 
prior orders for "zero tolerance and shoot on sight".  He's invited 
Durova to reduce the block or not, and will respect it either way.

Now, does anybody else think that orders of "zero tolerance and shoot 
on sight" seem to fit better for the East German Stasi guarding the 
Berlin Wall than for anything on Wikipedia?  Where's the Wikilove in 
that?  (Have I just triggered some relative of Godwin's Law?)

We really need to change that tagline "The free encyclopedia anyone 
can edit".  Anyone, that is, except the growing number of banned and 
blocked users, or anybody new who sounds too much like a past banned 
user and is tagged as a sock/meatpuppet, or anybody who runs afoul of 
a "zero tolerance and shoot on sight" edict, or anybody who wants to 
edit an article that's protected (perhaps indefinitely, like 
LaRouche), or anybody who objects to any of this at the wrong time 
and place and attracts the ire of an admin.

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