As a victim of his attacks I sympathize however this continuing thread
boosts his ego which is the opposite of what you seek to do. Gwarp is
neither the most destructive nor most notable vandal wikipedia has faced.
I am not going to repeat the cliché by asking you to ignore him so that he
gets bored. But I think you should probably discuss the topic more
generally. For example a discussion on RL actions against vandals in
general.
- White Cat
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 4:21 AM, Soxred93 <soxre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Because we're tired of his attacks and threats and we are trying to
> do something IRL to stop him?
>
>
> On Jan 6, 2009, at 9:20 PM [Jan 6, 2009 ], White Cat wrote:
>
> > Why is Grawp still being discussed? Although I am not a fan of
> > WP:DENY, this
> > is even bothering me....
> > - White Cat
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 3:43 AM, [[User:Thinboy00]] <
> > thinboy00+wikipedial...@gmail.com
> > <thinboy00%2bwikipedial...@gmail.com><thinboy00%
> > 2bwikipedial...@gmail.com>>wrote:
> >
> >> I get the feeling Grawp isn't expecting us to do anything off-wiki.
> >> If the victims call the police, it would at the very least (unless
> >> I'm
> >> wrong, which is always possible) surprise him, possibly awaken his
> >> mom/guardian to the reality of the situation, and probably turn this
> >> from a "game" in his mind into an exchange with very real people.
> >> OTOH, he might just laugh at us for overreacting... but at least that
> >> way he'll get more careful, meaning no more death threats (on-wiki at
> >> least, if he gets abusive via email the victims can employ filtering,
> >> if he gets abusive on IRC the chanops can ban him etc.) and less
> >> vandalism (maybe). We should probably complain to <insert government
> >> official | insert journalist> that Verizon is being oh-so-useless
> >> right now...
> >>
> >> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 4:32 AM, Sarah Ewart
> >> <sarahew...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 4:02 PM, [[User:Thinboy00]] <
> >>> thinboy00+wikipedial...@gmail.com<thinboy00%2bwikipedial...@gmail.com><thinboy00%
> >>> 2bwikipedial...@gmail.com><
> >> thinboy00%2bwikipedial...@gmail.com<thinboy00%252bwikipedial...@gmail.com>
> <thinboy00%
> >> 252bwikipedial...@gmail.com>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> so are we calling the police or not?
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> No, "we" aren't; it's up to the people who have been targets of
> >>> death,
> >> rape
> >>> and violence threats and whose children have been threatened with
> >>> rape
> >> and
> >>> murder to decide for themselves if they want to take that step or
> >>> not. I
> >>> would personally support people who wanted to do so and I hope the
> >>> Foundation would, too, but it's a decision those people have to
> >>> make for
> >>> themselves.
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> >>
> >> --
> >> Sincerely,
> >> Thinboy00
> >>
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