Hivemind, Alison vs. Daniel Brandt Options

[Alison]

Fuck you, Brandt

Guess I've very little to fear now.

... except the knock on the door. All I ever did was try to defend others, now I have to defend myself. Fuck you!

This post has been edited by Alison: Fri 21st March 2008, 6:53am

[Knight]

So:

The redirect from Daniel Brandt is deleted:
log entry

Alison has been taken off Hivemind.
Hivemind

I'm kinda surprised by both...

[Somey]

I'm kinda surprised by both... :wacko:

I dunno... Daniel usually keeps his word when the other side agrees to a compromise, or gives him what he wants (choose your own phrasing, of course).

Maybe the cat is already too far out of the bag, as Alison says, but let's just say regardless that if someone posts that last name here, we're going to redact it ASAP. If necessary we can even add it to our profanity filter, though that might actually act as a confirmation mechanism for "certain people"...

Luckily, it's a common-enough name that the Google hits on it mostly lead to other people. I'd still like to see some effort on Alison's part to reduce her own exposure, but that's up to her of course. Wikipedia sooper-admin powarz should never be considered consequence-free by the people who have them, even if they're really, really nice people. Wikipedia is just too big and controversial for that, I'm afraid.

[wikiwhistle]

. Wikipedia sooper-admin powarz should never be considered consequence-free by the people who have them, even if they're really, really nice people. Wikipedia is just too big and controversial for that, I'm afraid.

If that's the case, it just risks making critics of wikipedia appear like cruel, wierd tossers, having a go at decent people. There are enough examples of abuse on wikipedia for them to be highlighted without going after individual editors who've never done those at WR any harm, particularly.

If we make WP lose editors or their contributions decrease due to intimidation/winding people up, it just plays into Wikipedias hands for them to be able to say their critics are troublemakers and nutters going after people at random, rather than genuine critics.


As to removing info from online about oneself, that's quite difficult to do sometimes.