[WikiEN-l] Incivility and hypocrisy

Thu Jun 16 17:54:53 UTC 2005

>>JAY JG wrote:
>>
>>>Perhaps we should alert Human Rights
>>>Watch or Amnesty International.

>Gregory Maxwell wrote:

>>This sort of disrespectful language reflects poorly on the project. It's 
>>not acceptable to bait people with such jabs just so you can yell
>>'look see' when the victim meets your incivility with more incivility.

Someone implying hypocrisy wrote:

>I was kind of confused to see this post right after this one:
>
>Gregory Maxwell wrote:
>
>>Oh I know, we'll have a wikisockpuppet test:
>>We will send ninjas to go kill the suspected puppeteer, and if the
>>socks never edit again we'll know we were right!

But there is no hypocrisy.

Gregory Maxwell was using hyperbole to illuminate an unfairness in the 
process. This is civil discourse.

Jay JG was ridiculing someone for daring to ask for help. Very different.

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