On 22/04/2008, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Person B's response gives me hope that this
believe system is not yet
the majority view. ... So I'm left wondering, how the heck did this
start happening, and how can it be avoided? Is it the result of how
the policies are presented? Or are there just a few bad applies that
need to be disinvited from the community.
Thoughts?
The problem is pathologically literalist geeks so socially crippled
they don't realise they are with a chronic inability not to hair-split
down to the Planck length.
They do have a point, and that's why WP:BLP only works because it's
the basic content rules (NPOV, NOR, V) applied in a really really
hard-arsed manner.
But I think they need to be reminded to be human. Not that I know how.
- d.