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Today I will get community banned, getting attacked by a lynch mob without any ability to say anything in my defense.

But here's an interesting comment by Will Beback

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=476232084

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*'''Comment''' If folks can be sanctioned for what they do on other websites then there are a bunch of WR contributors who'll have a lot to answer for. I think that might be a good idea, but I just want to make sure that folks know the proposed action here would set a precedent


The situation reminded to me http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came%E2%80%A6 this thing

First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.


Good luck to the ones who's left, and who's never spoken out!

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The sad thing is if you put your statements in a different tone with less editorializing and commentary, you might actually be able to put whatever points you have across - but because your tone comes off so aggressive people discount what you say without wanting to read through it all, you set off the "crackpot" button in peoples' heads:
wikipediareview.com/?showtopic=35651&st=80&p=297402&#entry297402
— If you want to have a chance, go back and edit what you said, remove the excessive repeated hysterical-sounding "Gwen Gale"s and replace it with a calm commentary on events with as little padding and headers as possible, in something people can easily read -say sorry for letting your emotions get the better of you, and calmly restate what the problems were, in a more compact and concise form

I don't think it's your fault, it's just your style and these things tend to have to be learned the hard way - I hope they take that you are obviously believe you are acting with good intentions from everything you say and not intending to be disruptive into account, it's just that you saw some things you consider wrong and want to right them, I understand, I got carried away sometimes when I was younger too - but the sad thing is it doesn't matter how right you are if you can't conform a bit :/
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