On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 10:18:03 -0400, Abd wrote: > Durova's history is a classic example. She was hounded by a screaming > mob when she made a mistake, even though she recognized the error and > undid it within an hour.
I might well be counted as part of that "screaming mob" since I was one of the critics at the time, but my intended target was never Durova personally (who is now a Facebook friend of mine), but the entire system and its associated mindsets, in which a group of "insiders", with closed mailing lists of their own, takes on a "circling the wagons" mentality against "trolls and harassers", leading to snap judgments that can get people blocked or banned for saying politically incorrect things. I had some comments on that situation in my essay I wrote as a rebuttal to one of JzG's essays: http://dan.tobias.name/controversies/cyber/wiki2.html -- == Dan == Dan's Mail Format Site: http://mailformat.dan.info/ Dan's Web Tips: http://webtips.dan.info/ Dan's Domain Site: http://domains.dan.info/ _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
