User talk:213.46.128.161
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[edit] Hey, you! Yes, you, the guy who is checking this page right now! Hi!
If you came here, you probably have some beef with an edit I made. Or you decided to check who was really behind that IP address. What's going through your head right now? Are you thinking, "Stupid anonymous users always disrupting Wikipedia"? Or perhaps "If he keeps making edits, why doesn't he just get an account?"
Well, sadly, Wikipedia seems to suffer from the same kind of problems many online communities suffer from: people form cliques based on other people's backgrounds and opinions and think that people with a registered username are somehow better editors than those who choose to remain anonymous. Yes, choose to. I purposely decide not to register an account. Why? Well, let's just say I value a contribution by its content and not by its author. As such, I think my edits should be taken as if they were made by any anonymous person. Judge them based on their merit, not because of the username associated with it.
It's the content of an edit that matters, not who makes it. In the same vein, it doesn't matter if someone made a thousand edits to WP or just one, the edit's merit should still be considered on its own.
A problem of this you can see below: even the blocking administrator just assumes because he sees an IP address that I must be a sockpuppet of someone else, and brings in an absurd interpretation of the rules to block me. What did I do? I put back a message on a talk page that was removed with prejudice (even though it was an invitation to dialogue, not merely some insult or something). This message had the word "libellous" in it. Apparantly, that meant that I was trying to sue WP. Can you believe that? I'm still baffled by how people choose to abuse the system to further their own agenda.
I hope that this short essay has got you thinking. For further reading, I suggest Welcome anonymous editing, Editcountitis and Wikipedia Isn't That Important.
If you still want to berate me for an edit I made, do so using arguments, and not just because I am an anonymous user.
No one within this community should ever think that I respect our principles of openness more than I respect the community itself. So I will not ride the ship of openness to the bottom of the ocean.
--Jimbo
Jimbo Wales making clear the sad fact that WP is all about the "community" and not truly freedom of speech. I guess you knew that, though.
What it seems like is that values of the "active community" are held in higher regard than those of principality. In other words, minority values are seen as less important, and that even goes for majority values if the majority is not deemed part of the community enough. The net result is that WP is basically a dictatorship with the "closely-knit group" (JW's words) as the dictators.--213.46.128.161 17:53, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Blocked for legal threat
Replacing someone elses (?) legal threat is the same as making your own. Happy to lift block upon disavowal of legal threat. - brenneman 05:54, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
- Wow, that's stretching the rules to use them to your benefit by a whole lot.
I hope you've considered that "Caution should be exercised before blocking users who may be acting in good faith."?
But I just noticed you are the blocking administrator, so I guess I shouldn't hope much for a dispute resolution, huh? I guess those things are really just for show and the ugly things all happen behind the scenes.--213.46.128.161 07:17, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
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