On 1/4/06, slimvirgin(a)gmail.com <slimvirgin(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 1/3/06, Ryan Delaney <ryan.delaney(a)gmail.com> wrote:
If there's anything to be learned from this,
it's that unproductive
members
of the community do less harm than trying to take
away their toys does.
You
end up alienating a lot more people than you
thought you would.
I'm not sure that's true, Ryan. They do a lot of harm, it's just
usually less dramatic.
They certainly do less harm than this whole ordeal has. Some people just
can't stand to have anything on Wikipedia that disagrees with their
principles, and they're willing to go to war over it. This is a great
example. The war is more damaging than the thing you're going to war over.
We all should really just call it quits on this one.
Ryan