User blog comment:NotAnEditor/Hate Mail/@comment-1464097-20090902191122

@Bugzy

OK, that was constructive. I admit I do tend to get very annoyed when people say certain things. Like, oh, IDK, 'utopian'. It's a hrmless-sounding phrase, but I do tend to become irritated by it. Or, um, 'cencorship'. I do acnowledge the need for cencorship, but it tends to annoy me. Mabye I read 1984 to closely or something. It probably doesn't help that I'm a hopeless perfectionist (which causes me to try to improve stuff that really doesn't need it.) However, I have to disagree with your statement that 'there's usually a reason when someone gets "hate mail"'. Of course there is asually a reason, but in most cases (if not mine) the cause is on the sender's end. Just a thought. I have to agree with your statement in essence, but it could be reconstructed as an insult. Just a thought.

@TurtleSroom


 * 1) Sorry? How can I be disobaying (civilly or not) if I obey the letter of the law? This is a common mistake, so I will rectify it here: I DO NOT CIVILLY DISOBAY THE COC. I NEVER HAVE, I NEVER CLAIMED TO HAVE, I NEVER WILL  HAVE. SO PLEASE STOP SAYING I DON'T, I ALREADY KNOW I DON'T. OK?
 * 2) 'Unwritten Clauses'? There are names for those: whim, opinion, belief. Whenever these are used as a rule system, revolution, then anarchy, insue. I'm sure you don't want that. If you are so convinced I am exploiting loopholes, then *close* the loophole. You're a BOBmaster! There are unwritten rules? Write them! Of course, there is a problem. You can't write rules saying "No Crisis Starting" since no-one admits to starting crises, and it's hard to pinpoint the source. Luckily, this is not a problem. Crises are tiny arguments which spark more arguments wich spark more arguments, like ripples in a pond, and when the ripples intersect enough (as they inevitably do) then people begin to think the whole wiki's against them and quit. Then their friends quit and so on. More ripples. And of course, just as the fight-ripples cause quit ripples, the quit ripples... you know, I'm going to post a whole theory of Crises, though I have only experianced two, both of which were blamed on me (one truly was my fault, one was a misunderstanding,) and both were on the CPW, so I can't really say /i have too much experiance. However, I can theorise, and my long-lost point is, I think, that the people who cause Crises are pretty much blameless. They only started a tiny fight, soon resolved in normal curcumstances. The real cause is the environment, which is why me have had only two Crises which (I hope I'm not being offensive here, I wasn't actually there. I'm working from records, and they are rather vauge) barely merit the title. The CPW, however, has had three times as many. And we are suffering from all sorts of vandalisation problems. So the answer to Crises is not to try and allocate blame, but to try and prevent future ones and convince the quitters to retern. But apart from that one example, make the unwritten rules written ones. Please. For sanity's sake, we cannot be governed by a rulebook held in the head of an admin. We need a rulebook.
 * 3) I know that it's not very offensive. My point is that legally it is hate mail. It's more a statement then a serious accusation. Elsewhere, I tend towards Civil Disobediance if I consider a rule stupid, but here the rules are so simple I follow them to the letter. It's probably a reaction to being called a criminal all the time. So when there's a silly rule, I follow it obsessively, in the most extreme situations. Then I point out how stupid this is, and hopefully this becomes clear. With the hate mail, however, I became rather annoyed with the perpatrator, so I didn't bother having the rule re-examined. I dislike being called names generally, but being called a 'terrorist' makes me very annoyed. I also hate being told I have no/don't deserve rights. I'm not saying it's really Hate Mail, but it's legally Hate Mail. So we havee to change the law. See?
 * 4) But I'm not trying to belittle the hate mail you've indured. Very nasty, that.

@Antwan1353

Mabye he did... ah well.