SlimVirgin makes some points in her essay not discussed formally here.

It was noted that the sock creation account of a user:Crum375 on WQ was a clear form of harassment (albeit not incredibly bad), but bad enough that it wouldn't be tolerated on any other decently-moderated site. So what was wrong with WQ? But several people here could not seem to get that point. PL and Yehudi among them.

Now we know why. WQ had been infected. The Crum375 creation there was a harassing gesture much like PL's setting of the badwords filter against Greg here on WR, and done by the same person. But a little more nasty on WQ than the same thing here.

Okay, so can I see a show of hands of those who thought the real Crum375 had no case against what was looking like a weird policy of WQ-- something that was not like anything an even-handed site ought to be doing? Ermmm? Who defended Crum375 against WQ laxity of policy?

There's a lesson here for people who are tempted to let their ethical standards be too affected by who is getting screwed at the moment, and whether they like them or not. WR (not counting the Poetbeast socks on it, of course) should have been a little more fair on this one. Else there's not much to distinquish us from a lot of what happens on WP.

MR