On 13/05/06, Ryan Delaney ryan.delaney@gmail.com wrote:
Because people take it so seriously that they edit war, wheel war, and leave the project over it, as incomprehenible to me as that is. It's as if the result of this battle over userboxes will have any direct impact on the quality of the articles. It won't. Whether userboxes stay or not, I really wish we would all just let it go and write the fucking encyclopedia already. The fact that some people spend so much time on the mailing list trying to ensure that they get their way in this shitheap of an "issue" makes me wonder what you are all really here to do.
I don't usually agree with Ryan Delaney much, but let it go on the record that I fully endorse this particular viewpoint. Can't the whole userboxen issue be let go? We have a CSD and people are enforcing it. The bitching is slowly ceasing, so let's not do anything to provoke another full-scale riot, huh?
Rob Church