[WikiEN-l] Tacit acceptance of harassment

Sun Aug 31 03:09:57 UTC 2003

James Duffy starts ranting about "the boy who cried
>wolf", and denies that serious amounts of Jew baitiing
>exists - in the midst of some of the most serious
>anti-Semitic slander Wikipedia has seen.
>
RK, I made it absolutely clear in my message that I was not attacking you, 
much less ranting. Furthermore I have unambiguously called for a ban of EoT. 
Please stop misrepresenting people.

The point of the message was to say that, having accused vast numbers of 
people of jew-baiting, as in the story of 'the boy who called wolf', you 
undermine your credibility to such a degree that when it /really happens/, 
people simply think /here he goes again/ and don't take your claims 
seriously.

Most of what you called 'jew baiting' is really 'you bating', attacks on 
you, not your religion, though, and I do understand this, you interpreted it 
as an attack on your faith and culture. If it was genuine jew baiting, it 
would also have been targeted against others of the jewish faith or 
community. It was targeted solely against you, often in response to your 
over-reaction to criticism. I have emailed you privately to urge you to be 
restrained in your accusations, making the point that it does not help your 
cause when you make extreme allegations against much of wiki. Now I am 
saying it publicly. Sometimes you are your own worst enemy, your wild 
allegations so undermining your credibility that when it genuinely happens, 
people just think, in the words of Ronald Reagan (I never thought I'd end up 
quoting /him/!) 'there you go again'.

Let me be blunt. I respect your contributions. I respect your sincerity. I 
know you are a genuine and honourable contributor to wiki. But you do more 
to undermine your case than anyone else on wiki. Please, please, please stop 
it.

I think EoT's behaviour to you was outrageous. Creating all these 'attack' 
pages was a gross abuse of wiki. No-one, repeat no-one, should be allowed to 
do that to /any/ user on wiki. So again, I call for his banning. I also 
appeal to you to show restraint. Please show the respect for others that 
your /rightly/ expect them to show to you. EoT has already been banned as I 
think ''142''. Don't create sympathy for him by your over-reaction. And 
please stop attacking those who are trying to help you to deal with OTT 
attacks. You make defending you /extremely/ difficult when you read into 
genuine advice personalised attacks. I made it clear before, and I make it 
clear again, I am trying to be constructive and to say that EoT's behaviour 
is a gross abuse of wiki. Please stop attacking the dwindling number of 
people willing to defend you against EoT's acts. And BTW it is dwindling 
/not/ because people are anti-jewish, or agree with EoT's behaviour, but 
because you interpret the /slightest/ criticism of you, however honest and 
well meaning, in a grossly unfair manner.

Please /this/ time heed my advice.

JT

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