[WikiEN-l] Nazi userboxes

Fri Dec 1 02:44:01 UTC 2006

On 11/30/06, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
>
> Rob wrote:
> > On 11/30/06, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Remember, there is a difference between modern neo-nazi parties and
> >> the German Nazi party of the 1930s and 40s. They may have the same
> >> political beliefs, but they are different parties. This user is not a
> >> mass murderer, he just happens to agree with one on political issues.
> >
> > If anything, the modern Nazi advocate is worse, because he or she has
> > no excuse for not knowing what the Nazi agenda is really about.  A
> > modern Nazi is of course not a mass murderer, merely a wannabe mass
> > murderer, but the only difference between the two is skill and
> > opportunity.
>
> In this case, it is not so much about Nazi or non-Nazi.  It's about
> trolling.  Don't feed the trolls.
>
> Do you know what trolls like to eat?  They thrive on getting good people
> to fight with each other.  Yum Yum.  It's boring.  Best to treat it as
> boring and move on.
>
> --Jimbo
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In this case, I agree with the block under WP:COMMONSENSE (the guy was
certainly a troll, look at the other things on his userpage), but there seem
to be people here who think it would be OK to block all Nazis/people with
offensive ideologies even if they're not trolling, which doesn't seem like a
good idea to me.