For a start, there is no difference between warning a user to be more civil, and warning them to be more respectful of those with differing viewpoints, since being an asshole to those who disagree with you covers the vast majority of incivility that is found on Wikipedia, as solid research has shown, mostly originating from a hard core of toxic editors just like Mjolnirpants, as it happens. That this Administrator doesn't get that, explains why nothing has changed since that by now very old research finding.A number of comments above appear to be referencing my close of a previous discussion as a warning against incivility. I want to be very clear that it was not, it was a pledge by MjolnirPants to be more respectful of editors with differing viewpoints, and in the same discussion I somewhat endorsed aggressive treatment of overt racists.
You would only not need to give such warnings, if the Administrators enforced the very policies that exist to try to ensure the only people on the site for very long, are those who don't need such warnings, because they just don't do it. As subsequent events showed, resorting to giving such warnings to such a long established editor as Mjolnirpants was very much a case of too little too late, proof you should have acted, and acted decisively, the very first time he issued a threat of violence.I agree that we shouldn't need to warn editors not to respond to confrontation with descriptions of violent sexual acts, and at the same time I agree that we should do so in this case since MjolnirPants doesn't seem able to draw that line for themselves.
And the policy basis for this is what, exactly? Which Wikipedia policies says it is OK to ridicule anyone, for any reason?I oppose any restriction that is generally worded as to prevent MjolnirPants ridiculing overt racists in ways that do not describe violence.
Newsflash. Not only are racists not the least bit intimidated by the sort of abuse eminating from the likes of Mjolnirpants, who personifies completely the label "keyboard warrior", someone in this incident actually provided hard evidence of the not very surprising and entirely predictable eventuality, that all Mjolinirpants achieved was to get racists riled up and want to come to Wikipedia to cause trouble. A psychologist would probably say he did it deliberately, because he needs people to fight a righteous war with online, to give himself a sense of self-worth, and because most likely, he's too chicken shit to go on an actual counter-demonstration.Frankly if racists don't edit Wikipedia because they fear abuse from editors like MjolnirPants, that's a good thing. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 14:27, 21 February 2019 (UTC)
None of this has occurred to this Wikipedia Administrator, hence the site's well documented problems with both preventing an atmosphere of general toxicity, and preventing people like Mjolnirpants from thinking they have a green light from the Administration to do what so clearly comes naturally to them, for they are as immature and lacking in intelligence as the very people they are trying to ridicule.
People like Ivan do more damage to Wikipedia than any racist editor, they're just too stupid to see it. Fortunately there are ways to make them suffer for their ignorance, both personally and institutionally, which is an entirely ethical thing to do since it is by now well established that no other means of feedback is effective on the cult of Wikipedia.
HTD.