[WikiEN-l] userbox : insanity ?

[Jay Converse]

On 1/13/06, John Lee <johnleemk at gawab.com> wrote:
>
> Peter Mackay wrote:
>
> > <snip>
> >
> >
> >Don't think that this place is subject to the same sort of standards you
> >expect in a court of law or even the due process of a government body.
> It's
> >just a website, and the people running the show are all busy doing other
> >stuff and while they are happy to assume the rank and power of their
> >position, their top priority isn't listening to you point out their
> >shortcomings, it's getting an encyclopaedia built.
> >
> >Accept that from your point of view the system is crooked and rigged and
> get
> >on with it. Complaining about it only gets everyone offside.
> >
> >As I discovered.
> >
> >Peter (Skyring)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> I couldn't have put it better. [[WP:NOT]] a social experiment - it's an
> encyclopedia. For some people, this is too much to accept, but the rest
> of us who are here to write an encyclopedia couldn't care less.
>
>
To add to this, those who are here to fight vandals also couldn't care less
about half of the WikiLawyering that goes on around here.  Sometimes I think
the people involved in that particular sector of the Wiki automagically
assume that they're the only section of the Wiki anymore.

--
I'm not stupid, just selectively ignorant.