On 6/1/05 4:26 PM, "Sean Barrett" <sean(a)epoptic.org> wrote:
MacGyverMagic/Mgm stated for the record:
I totally agree with this. If environknot had
been less hostile, his
chances of being unblocked would've been much larger.
And if trolls were contributors, we wouldn't need the ArbComm.
I'd just like to say that I despise the Newspeak technique of abbreviating
the name of the arbitration committee. As Orwell wrote in 1984: "It was
perceived that in thus abbreviating a name one narrowed and subtly altered
its meaning, by cutting out most of the associations that would otherwise
cling to it."
See [[Newspeak]].