The Culture of Coercion and BullyingQUOTE(Newyorkbrad @ Tue 19th May 2009, 10:09pm)
QUOTE(Daniel Brandt @ Tue 19th May 2009, 9:17pm)
NYB, when are you going to put your name on your user page? Cool_Hand_Luke should do it too.
I actually had planned to do it this week, as I mentioned in this thread last week. I might well have done it when I returned to editing last summer, but
I didn't particularly appreciate the feeling of being coerced into it.QUOTE(Dan Tobias on Volokh Conspiracy)
Yes, some of the ruling clique of admins like to bind and gag people they don't like, in addition to banning them.
There, in a nutshell, is the core problem with WikiCulture.
Coercion, bullying, binding, and gagging is simply not a sustainable practice for a functional project in education.But it's a sustainable practice for a simulated war game.