[WikiEN-l] Delete Daniel Brandt

Sun Jun 11 17:51:55 UTC 2006

On 6/11/06, Phil Sandifer <Snowspinner at gmail.com> wrote:
> In my case, who I am is public knowledge, and I decided to make it
> that way. But that's not the case for everyone on Brandt's Hive Mind
> site. A lot of them are people who didn't accept their RFA expecting
> that they'd have their names, cities of residence, and photos
> released. Nobody on Wikipedia, I don't think, realized that accepting
> adminship meant painting a target on yourself, and, frankly, on your
> family and friends.

Pretty much anything you do online risks doing that.

>
> The Foundation doesn't and can't provide admins with protection here.
> And we need protection. The other admins on this site should not get
> to go through what I did, or any of the far worse things that can and
> will eventually happen to us.
>
> But, after thinking about it, its my belief that the Foundation owes
> its editors and admins the protections it can give. And one of those
> is offering to delete Brandt's article in exchange for the removal of
> the Hive Mind site. It's an awful trade. It's a horrible, awful
> trade. We should hate making it, and we should hate Brandt for
> forcing us to make it.
>
> But we should make it. Because the consequences of not making it are
> just too dangerous.
>
> -Phil

Not nearly as dangerous as the consequences of making it. Supose we
do. Guess what the next person we piss off will do. And the next and
the next.

-- 
geni