[WikiEN-l] Cla68 blocked for asking question

[Daniel R. Tobias]

On 20 Oct 2007 at 20:48:48 -0700, "Steven Walling" 
<steven.walling at gmail.com> wrote:

> Jimbo, at first glance my Portland liberal brain knee-jerk reacted to your
> comment about bringing back the WikiLove by thinking, "How? By simply
> blocking or banning anyone who can't agree with our vision and play nice?
> Seems rather in contrast to wiki values."
> 
> But then I thought about it, and that's exactly right. For a long time,
> civility and WikiLove have been rhetoric without any force behind them, or
> at least the force of a block. Perhaps it's time for admins to step up to
> the plate more when it comes to trolls who dance around the letter of the
> law to stick around.

Your first impression makes more sense to me.  Love isn't something 
you can gain by force or threat of it.  Fear, yes, and maybe 
compliance, but not love.  Are you looking for a fake civility and 
feigned love that comes from everybody being afraid to openly show 
any other feelings for fear of sanctions?  That would be like on the 
Twilight Zone episode where the mutant kid reads everybody's mind and 
makes people vanish or transform into things if he doesn't like what 
they're thinking, so everybody has to constantly think pleasant 
thoughts even though they really hate the kid's guts.

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