I'm not sure you can say they blew her off - even if it was clear she was off the rails, I suspect that anyone with something to sell, such as a medium-sized University, is going to take a threat from Wikipedia somewhat seriously. It's just that in this case, I'm sure it was fairly clear to them there was nothing behind the threat other than sheer bluster. After all, at the end of the day, the facts are quite clear:
Wikipedia allows vandalism. Maybe they think it's essential to their success, but even though there are a bunch of ways by which they could stop it, they don't implement them, because they know that many people would accuse them of "censorship."
It
was pretty funny, though! (IMG:
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