[WikiEN-l] The ongoing trolling

Sat Jul 9 23:38:14 UTC 2005

Absolutely. If we stopped using the language of the
witch-hunt or lynch-mob, we would be forced to examine
the behavior.

Focussing on speculation about intent, labelling and
mud-slinging is a major part of the issue.

What part of my behavior caused David Gerard to block
me?

Norrath

--- Jack Lynch <jack.i.lynch at gmail.com> wrote:

> We need better ways of catagorising one another than
> troll, admin,
> left -right, or whatever. These are ambiguous terms,
> and with the
> possible exception of "admin", each person who uses
> them defines them
> differently.
> 
> Rather than labeling each other, I'd say it is
> better to label the
> ''conduct''. If someone says or does something rude,
> I think it is the
> job of others (particularly admins, and in this case
> list admins) to
> respond to that in a proper manner. Assumably admins
> themselves would
> be above any improper conduct themselves, but
> unfortunately were all
> human. I think this current problem is not so much
> the act of
> whistleblowing, but of how it is responded to.
> Personally, I would not
> have allowed the numerous threads of complaints
> regarding edit warring
> / page-blocking @ [[feces]], for example (and chose
> not to read or
> respond to them ;)
> 
> Jack (Sam Spade)
> 
> Perhaps it was a poor choice of words on my part.
> Replace "troll" with
> "problem user".
> 
> ~Mark
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