[WikiEN-l] Civility poll results

[Surreptitiousness]

Charles Matthews wrote:
> Surreptitiousness wrote:
>   
>> At some point the arbitration committee is going to have to make tough 
>> decisions, if only to see exactly where the chips fall. If the 
>> arbitration committee is sometimes afraid of acting, what hope have we 
>> got? David brought up the idea of forking again, and maybe that's what 
>> we need to explore once again, maybe we do need to investigate a fork of 
>> the project.
>>     
> Ah, the Golgafrincham solution (see 
> [[Places_in_The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy#Golgafrincham]]). Sort 
> of, anyway. The pious hope of a fork in which those who really, really 
> hate currrent dispute resolution processes are invited to work on a WP 
> clone, licensed in the same way as the original, and so to take their 
> dramatics somewhere else. Without the cryogenics, though. This of course 
> is what Citizendium should have been, but they ducked cloning the 
> material and editing it down. I think this is just a science-fiction or 
> desert-island fable, but I could be wrong. It could be "Lord of the 
> Flies" or a "brave new world" - who knows? I think DG is astutely 
> putting this forward as a reply to people with no contructive 
> suggestions as to how to move forward from where we are now.
>   
Nah, you're probably right.  Mind, didn't I use this as a springboard 
for another idea which got snipped?  Sorry, was just brainstorming 
again.  I don't think the idea is to get people to take their dramatics 
elsewhere, it's more an idea of working out how to have one's cake and 
eat it. Mind, if I am being unconstructive, please feel free just to 
call me on it.