[WikiEN-l] Cla68 blocked for asking question

[Marc Riddell]

on 10/20/07 10:12 PM, Daniel R. Tobias at dan at tobias.name wrote:

> 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.

Folks, before you write this off as an excessive rant - please think about
it some.

Marc