[WikiEN-l] WikiEN-l Digest, Vol 54, Issue 128

[Nathan]

Whatever it is, it isn't capitulation. Its a recognition of reality
(or a perception of it, since there is disagreement on the actual
danger). If its raining outside, you wear a raincoat or take an
umbrella. If its snowing, you put on boots. If you're a cop, you wear
a uniform. If pictures on the 'net is dangerous, you don't post them.

I don't know that I would agree that posting pics on the 'net is
harmless. Admins can sometimes be targets, and I don't post any photos
of myself to the 'net on general principle. But other people have
different ideas and shouldn't have their character impugned as a
result - neither Lara nor Ansell. He made a poorly considered comment,
has apologized for the offense caused but continues to believe that
the general point of view is correct.

This should be dropped in the interests of not continuing a pointless argument.

Nathan

On Jan 31, 2008 11:35 AM, Steve Summit <scs at eskimo.com> wrote:
> Mark Ryan wrote:
> > With the high profile cases where administrators have been stalked in
> > real life as a result of personally identifiable information they post
> > on the wiki, I feel it's mad for people to post their real names, let
> > alone photos of themselves, names of loved ones or photos of loved
> > ones. Sure, if you stay out of trouble on the wiki the chances of such
> > a thing happening is pretty slight, but there's plenty of nutcases out
> > there to go around.
>
> I don't know Lara and I haven't followed this thread, but
> I would speculate that her attitude might be similar to mine:
> I refuse to grant those nutcases that much power.  Some tiny
> number of them exist, who have perpetrated some tiny number of
> (albeit high-profile) atrocities, and now suddenly nobody else on
> the entire planet can post pictures of their children to the net?
> No; I defy that lopsided capitulation.
>
>
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