Bringing back a dispute from 2012 over a ban in 2018 is very reaching.
Punishment should have been applied for that case at that time, not
retroactively applied later on. If 'unbelievable anonymous hate mail' is
true, then I don't see why they shouldn't have been banned at that time.
However the circumstances in this case I haven't seen this behavior proved
recently as the cause for the CoC ban.
On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 4:32 PM Ori Livneh <ori.livneh(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 2:48 PM bawolff
<bawolff+wn(a)gmail.com> wrote:
MZMcbride (and any other individual contributor)
is at a power
disadvantage here relative to how the foundation is an organized
group
Have you *been* on the receiving end of an MZMcBride diatribe? I was, when
barely two months into my role as a software engineer at the Wikimedia
Foundation (and newly transplanted in the Bay Area), MZMcBride wrote a
Signpost
op-ed
<
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-08-20/Op-ed
centered around an inconsiderate remark I
made on a bug that I closed as
WONTFIX. The responses to that included on-wiki comments telling me to go
fuck myself
<
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Wikipedia_Signpos…
,
calls for my immediate resignation, and
unbelievably vicious anonymous
hate-mail. My mental state after that was bordering on suicidal.
I hope that you are struck by the parallels between that affair back in
2012 and the one we are presently discussing. The germ-cell of both cases
was a legitimate grievance about Foundation engineers being dismissive
toward a bug report. MZMcBride has a very good ear for grievances, and he
knows how to use his considerable social clout to draw attention to them,
and then use words as a kind of lightning-rod for stoking outrage and
focusing it on particular targets. I don't know why he does it and I won't
speculate, but I am convinced he knows exactly what he is doing. How could
he not? This has been going on for nearly a decade.
When I saw MZMcBride's "what the fuck" I *instantly* knew what was coming.
After it happens to you, you never forget the sensation of instant regret
and absolute panic as the Eye of Sauron fixates on you. It is a
*miserable* experience
and I understand completely why the CoC might feel compelled to intervene.
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