[WikiEN-l] Totally unscientific investigation...

[David Gerard]

geni wrote:
>On 11/14/05, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

>> That's absolutely and incredibly not true. They write a verifiable
>> article about something they know, get abusive comments on AFD (for
>> some reason, civility and assume good faith don't work there ... the
>> reason AFD is so damn poisonous to the community is that it blatantly
>> encourages participants to assume *bad* faith) and *leave*.

>That would be unusal. More likely they will simply be ignored. Most
>stuff that lands on afd is not implicetly verifiable.


Case where this happened really badly: webcomics. We now have a
project fork, Comixpedia, entirely caused by AFD. You may recall
extensive discussion surrounding this on this list a few weeks ago.


- d.