On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 8:20 PM, Neotarf <[email protected]> wrote: > @Risker: "I have a simple question to ask: How many people in this thread > have publicly or privately requested to the Wikimedia Foundation ED that > additional resources be assigned to trust and safety issues such as death > threats?" > > Answer: 26. > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Community_discussion_on_harassment_reporting > > That said, everyone I know of who has ever publicly objected to sexual > harassment has subsequently been indeffed. Maybe that's what the essay > should say. > >
Really? I can name a half dozen off the top of my head that became admins, functionaries, arbitrators, etc. At least some are still active. I don't think "if you report harassment you'll be blocked indefinitely" would be an accurate thing to tell people. I think Kerry's post sort of misses the point. No one will argue that even "joke" death threats are acceptable or fine; there just is no point in wasting police resources by reporting "threats" that turn out to be joke memes or totally unserious. The police realize this and ignore most threats; unfortunately, they don't have any reliable method for sorting out the 1 threat in a million that represents real danger.
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