[WikiEN-l] What's going on? - Inquiry 2

[Marc Riddell]

on 9/13/07 8:54 AM, Thomas Dalton at thomas.dalton at gmail.com wrote:

> On 13/09/2007, Marc Riddell <michaeldavid86 at comcast.net> wrote:
>> on 9/13/07 6:14 AM, Anirudh at anirudhsbh at gmail.com wrote:
>> 
>>> Somehow, on
>>> Wikipedia, people tend to treat other users even worse, as if they never
>>> profess any kind of feelings like humans do. I am guilty of this, most of us
>>> are.
>> 
>> And do we accept this as a given? Do we excuse it by saying, "that's the way
>> things are & always will be". And, as someone said, "that's the nature of a
>> mailing list". Or, do we see it for the primitive, dehumanizing behavior
>> that it is - and do something about it?
> 
> Photos on user pages? If you know what someone looks like, they seem
> more like a real person and less like some bits in a database.
> Obviously, some people would not want their picture on their user
> page, but for those that do, it might help. And improving relations
> between those might help improve relations with the others too.
> 
This would be a step in the right direction, Thomas. However, I still place
the responsibility for change on the abuser. Is a blind person more abusive
to someone simply because they can't see them?

Marc