On 6/16/05, Andrew Venier <avenier(a)venier.net> wrote:
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.
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!
I have certainty made mistakes before, but I don't see where I am
criticising anyone with the above. I was pointing giving an
exagerated example of how the only means we have to detect a good sock
with certanty are bound to cause more harm then they stop.
Had I been replying to someone complaining about sockpuppets, I could
see how my words would have been read as mocking. But in this case,
who could I been mocking? ...
In any case the sockpuppet issue is actually a hard one, and I don't
think anyone with the courage to wade those waters is deserving of
mockery, ... even if I disagree with their conclusions or methods.