[WikiEN-l] Cla68 blocked for asking question

[joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu]

Quoting "Daniel R. Tobias" <dan at tobias.name>:

> 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?)

Yes, and comparing people blocking users to shooting people in real life  is
needlessly inflammatory. Just because Jimbo used the phrase doesn't 
justify the
claim.
>