Durova Offers "Mentoring" Services Options

[Pwok]

posted by mistake

This post has been edited by Pwok: Thu 20th December 2007, 8:41am

[Moulton]

Actually, the idea of having a mentor at all (let alone Durova) struck me as rather odd for an enterprise that had as its goal to write a respectable encyclopedia.

But having a mentor makes perfectly good sense if one views Wikipedia as an MMPORG.

And whether she was any good at it or not, Durova did fancy herself as an expert on gaming the system. She even wrote blog articles about it.

[AB]

And whether she was any good at it or not, Durova did fancy herself as an expert on gaming the system. She even wrote blog articles about it.

Oh, she's fantastic at gaming the system. She can harass a person
and get them blocked for harassment. Absolutely brilliant!

But is that really what you want to learn from a mentor?

No, me neither.

[LamontStormstar]

Oh, she's fantastic at gaming the system. She can harass a person
and get them blocked for harassment. Absolutely brilliant!

But is that really what you want to learn from a mentor?

No, me neither.

That was my point with the Spears analogy.


Although, how does Durova harass a person and get them blocked for harassment?


This post has been edited by LamontStormstar: Fri 21st December 2007, 3:28am

[Moulton]

Although, how does Durova harass a person and get them blocked for harassment?

I have a theory about how that might be done.

When I was engaged in an otherwise congenial e-mail exchange with Durova, she suddenly and unexpectedly declared that she no longer wished to continue our conversation, indicating that she would consider any further traffic to be harrassment. That stance left no room for an expression of perplexity as to what had triggered her dramatic and unexplained reversal.

Something similar to that happened in my E-Mail conversation with Jim62sch.

[AB]

Although, how does Durova harass a person and get them blocked for harassment?

I have a theory about how that might be done.

When I was engaged in an otherwise congenial e-mail exchange with Durova, she suddenly and unexpectedly declared that she no longer wished to continue our conversation, indicating that she would consider any further traffic to be harrassment. That stance left no room for an expression of perplexity as to what had triggered her dramatic and unexplained reversal.

British law disagrees. Sexual content can be harassment. Threats of
physical harm can be harassment. Obscenely offencive material -
as in, calling someone a Nazi, not just comparing them to a Nazi, but
actually saying they are a Nazi - can be harassment. But there is a
right of peaceful protest. Peaceful protest is not harassment.

Durova was basically threatening you with defamation. It is obscenely
offencive, it my view, for her to accuse you of harassment when she
is the one making the threats.

Actually, calling you a harasser probably is obscenely offencive, and
therefore harassment according to British law... if I can just find a case
to confirm....