On 6/28/07, Guy Chapman aka JzG <guy.chapman(a)spamcop.net> wrote:
On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:04:25 -0400, "Ron
Ritzman" <ritzman(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
These are the people who are claiming they were
"abused" when the only
thing that happened to them was that they were prevented from doing
"X" on Wikipedia which is "just a website". How does this compare
with
people who suffer real abuse in real life?
Indeed. And in most cases X is self-promotion. But there are cases
where long-term trends in admin actions could do with critiquing, and
I don't mind being the subject of such a critique. It is not
especially surprising that the contributions thus far are mainly from
frustrated vanity spammers, since frustrating vanity spammers is one
of the things I am known for. Rootology does seem to want to rise
above the level of assuming that every action not backed by three
months of ArbCom deliberation is necessarily evil.
That said, we can already identify Gregory Kohs, Jonathan Barber and
Jon Awbrey laying out their grudges for all the world to see yet
again.
...And, so far, some effort made to ameliorate that.
It does give me hope that we can get a functional external
critic/gadfly site which is working with a reasonable set of
assumptions.
--
-george william herbert
george.herbert(a)gmail.com