Bringing back a dispute from 2012 over a ban in 2018 is very reaching. Punishment should have been applied for that case at that time, not retroactively applied later on. If 'unbelievable anonymous hate mail' is true, then I don't see why they shouldn't have been banned at that time. However the circumstances in this case I haven't seen this behavior proved recently as the cause for the CoC ban.
On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 4:32 PM Ori Livneh <ori.liv...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 2:48 PM bawolff <bawolff...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > MZMcbride (and any other individual contributor) is at a power > > disadvantage here relative to how the foundation is an organized > > group > > > Have you *been* on the receiving end of an MZMcBride diatribe? I was, when > barely two months into my role as a software engineer at the Wikimedia > Foundation (and newly transplanted in the Bay Area), MZMcBride wrote a > Signpost > op-ed > < > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-08-20/Op-ed > > > centered around an inconsiderate remark I made on a bug that I closed as > WONTFIX. The responses to that included on-wiki comments telling me to go > fuck myself > < > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-08-20/Op-ed&type=revision&diff=508453894&oldid=508453261&diffmode=source > >, > calls for my immediate resignation, and unbelievably vicious anonymous > hate-mail. My mental state after that was bordering on suicidal. > > I hope that you are struck by the parallels between that affair back in > 2012 and the one we are presently discussing. The germ-cell of both cases > was a legitimate grievance about Foundation engineers being dismissive > toward a bug report. MZMcBride has a very good ear for grievances, and he > knows how to use his considerable social clout to draw attention to them, > and then use words as a kind of lightning-rod for stoking outrage and > focusing it on particular targets. I don't know why he does it and I won't > speculate, but I am convinced he knows exactly what he is doing. How could > he not? This has been going on for nearly a decade. > > When I saw MZMcBride's "what the fuck" I *instantly* knew what was coming. > After it happens to you, you never forget the sensation of instant regret > and absolute panic as the Eye of Sauron fixates on you. It is a > *miserable* experience > and I understand completely why the CoC might feel compelled to intervene. > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
