I find it fascinating what a successful meme AGF is. I was so successfully
indoctrinated by it during my first three years or so on en.wp that when I
first encountered en.wn, where they explicitly reject AGF as intrinsically
incompatible with news production, I wondered how they could possibly
operate without it (this is after having wondered, when I first arrived at
en.wp, how they could possibly function *with* it). For a few years I
tried to satisfy both camps, with the idea that it was appropriate for
Wikipedia but not for Wikinews. Eventually I've concluded that AGF has
done huge damage to en.wp, creating a highly toxic culture there. The
en.wn alternative is Never assume (which I'm realizing, more and more, is
not just a code of social interaction, it's a philosophy of life). AGF, if
taken literally by its name, advocates assuming something, which
contributors to an information provider should never be encouraged to do.
If taken the way it seems to be meant (per WP:ZEN), it teaches people to
say something different than what you mean, also not good. And, AGF can
be, and is, used successfully by people of bad faith to avoid
responsibility for their own behavior and get their victims in trouble.
I note
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