I'm going to keep at it, for now. Honestly, I'm tired of it being a mostly internally discussed problem... Perhaps I'll change my mind at some point, but that's my thinking on it at this time.
Lightbreather On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Carol Moore dc <carolmoor...@verizon.net> wrote: > Frankly, given the hostility to the Gender Gap project, I have to wonder > about this Hashtag effort. > > Lightbreather quoted some obnoxious guy statements a month ago out of her > own account and was roundly criticized. Forum shopping and canvassing > issues were raised while others applauded it. See > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jimbo_Wales/Archive_170#Fed_up_with_the_status_quo > ... > > I personally wouldn't do it because the wrong Admin who was friends with > people you quoted (or people who don't like you) probably would get you > blocked for weeks or months at a time. So it could be a way to trap editors > whose twitter accounts are somehow linked to their user names. > > I know at least one guy at an ANI got away with criticizing a woman editor > on her editing at a number of off wiki-sites. But that doesn't mean any of > us would get away with it. > > And this also can be turned about the Gender Gap Project > "#GenderGapStupidity" or whatever. > > So unless there was some community consensus on an appropriate way to do > this, I would tread carefully... > > CM > >
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