----- Original Message -----
From: Rick <giantsrick13(a)yahoo.com>
--- "Blair P. Houghton" <blair(a)houghton.net>
wrote:
> One of my favorite parts of the whole
debacle
was
> when GeorgeStepanek claimed I was a newbie.
His
account is dated
> December 10. Mine is dated January 1, but
if I
look around I can find
> edits I made over a year ago without having
created a login.
>
> Quite the guffaw around my keyboard, I can
assure
you.
Jim Cecropia, please note this. Your apologetics
for
him can end now.
RickK
Well, that's kind of a tepid smoking gun. I thought
you were going to catch him admitting he was Usama
bin Laden or something.
If you've read my posts, I've made two points: (1) I
believe in engaging "problem" users, not banning
them; I've said much the same about others users
(172, GBWR, Rei come to mind) that I've been at
polar opposites with; (2) 3RR is a new and abusive
procedure in a Wikipedia that is moving to control
minority users instead of improving the content.
Your post here illustrates part of the problem. If
you can "prove" Blair is a bad guy (and assert that
I am trying to "prove" him a good guy) you don't
have to deal with the substantive issues. I think
that's called a straw man, and a sort of convoluted
way of begging the question.
--C
I think his emails speak for themselves. He came in
here with a chip on his shoulder, he keeps making
attacks on even the people who are trying to work with
him, you keep saying, "He's just a newbie that we need
to make concessions to." He objects to the idea that
he's a newbie and claims to have been around for about
a year and half. He therefore knows the Wikipedia
philosophy of Wikiquette and assume good faith, and
yet he continues to write these nasty emails in which
he's the only person right in the entire world.
RickK
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