On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 11:45:06AM +0000, Matthew Woodcraft wrote:
On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 12:44:20AM -0800, Jonathan Walther wrote:
As long as "Oliver" tries to stick to the collegial spirit of mutual respect, that is fine. But I find it odd his user account appears right after Lir is banned, and then he jumps in and makes edits in a fashion that indicates he is anything but a newbie.
Eh? Oliver's account existed well before Lir was banned. It seems unlikely that Lir would have acquired an email account at a British university. If you look at Oliver's list of edits, you'll find they're perfectly sensible and restrained.
How long before? When I looked at Olivers "User Contributions" page, it showed no entries earlier than November 22 of this year.
As I said in my email, "If Oliver continues to play nice, I don't mind" and "I like his Oliver persona better than the Lir persona". Those aren't the words of someone accusing Oliver of being anti-social, in the style of Lir.
Oliver, in his defense of Lir, has been putting up straw men and ignoring legitimate problems with Lirs behavior. That seems at odds with his previously reasonable personality.
I haven't seen him defending Lir (is that what you meant?). He's just taking the same side which Lir did on the question of anglicised article names, which is certainly an issue on which reasonable people can differ.
He took Lirs side to "defend" Lir. Previously, he was taking the opposite side. Very usenetish behavior.
Jonathan