[WikiEN-l] Cla68 blocked for asking question

[John Lee]

On 10/20/07, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
>
> Marc Riddell wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Yes, think about everything some.  But also realize that there is such a
> thing as an excessive rant from someone who really really has crossed
> the line in comparing a 24 hour block for trolling to the "East German
> Stasi".


But as Steve Summit said, this was no prima facie instance of trolling.

Johnleemk