Both of these are issues which can be dealt with independently from the userbox question.
1. Should fair use images be allowed on user pages? Most people on here seem to conclude "no" on this subject in general, and it's the current policy, so that seems fairly straightforward.
2. Should user categories be allowed in general? I don't personally have a strong opinion on this (I don't see the problem, personally -- if people are going to bloc vote, assuming that is the issue, they have no problem doing that as it is. All one has to do to find sympathetic editors to a given POV is to look at the edit histories of contentious articles.) but surely a decision can be reached.
3. Should templates on user pages which are purely for decoration be auto-substituted? If there's an argument to be made about server performance, then okay, this should also be fairly straightforward.
Taking care of these issues as *general* issues and not related to one specific fad is the way to extinguish whatever actual problems there are without being idiosyncratic and draconian about it.
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On 1/8/06, Carbonite carbonite.wp@gmail.com wrote:
On 1/8/06, Fastfission fastfission@gmail.com wrote:
Why is it that I agree with Sam Spade? Honestly, I still do not see what all the fuss is about. Let people play with their silly trinkets. They will tire of them and make new trinkets later. All you do in heaping so much attention on one particular trinket is guarantee its prolonged existence.
Then we should make userboxes nothing more than silly trinkets. They should be snippets of code that someone adds to their user page and nothing more. Just a few simple ground rules: No fair use images and no user categories. I think that the opposition would pretty much disappear if userboxes truly were nothing more than a box with some text.
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