[WikiEN-l] Inflammatory userboxes

[Steven Walling]

<joke>I have a dream, that one day my four little adoptees will be judged
not by their userboxes but by the content of their contributions</joke>

I say we ignore the userbox problem. Seriously. The kind of person who would
have userboxes advocating for killing or pedophilia is just the kind of POV
pusher that gets burnout or is weeded out through poor behavior. The vast
majority of good Wikipedians know that inflammatory userboxes are a bad
thing.

On Jan 19, 2008 1:09 PM, Richard Symonds <hawkertyphoon at hotmail.com> wrote:

> > >Firstly, there's the issue of inflamatory userboxes. It appears that>
> >userboxes supporting American troops in Iraq are acceptable, but userboxes>
> >supporting the Iraqi insurgensy aren't. Userboxes supporting the killing
> of> >Iraqi insurgents are acceptable, but ones that support the killing of>
> > American troops aren't. Surely both the "support" ones should be
> acceptable,> >whilst the ones that support killing should be delete. Then
> there's the ones> >that advocate peodophilia. Users who have these often
> argue that we accept> >homosexual userboxes, which is just a stupid
> argument, but they don't seem> >to be able accept that. >The answer is, of
> course, to ban all such userboxes and be done with>it. Trying to decide what
> it is and isn't acceptable to express>support for is just asking for
> trouble.
>
> Or, of course, to accept them all. As long as the userboxes dont actually
> *kill* troops, or *engage in* paedophilia, there are no policies against it,
> are there? We shouldn't have *any* bias here, pro- or anti- anything.
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