Games in userspace are a perversion of the purpose of WP. If its still there much longer, I expect to find it at MfD. There's self expression within our context, which is good, and there's general use as a personal website, and that's something different--even for out most active contributors. Of course spending their time on X isnt a good argument, because they'd still be playing games; but it just wouldnt be on WP.
On Jan 19, 2008 7:40 PM, Chris Howie cdhowie@gmail.com wrote:
On Jan 19, 2008 5:44 PM, Steven Walling steven.walling@gmail.com wrote:
I think that's excessive use of userspace. It has absolutely nothing to
do
with building an encyclopedia, and it's not an effective
community-building
tool like the Facebook. Little wonder we have articles on core topics
that
sit unimproved when people waste their time like that.
Volunteers will spend their time how they choose, not how we dictate.
(I'm not making a judgment either way about this user's behavior, but I've seen the "they're wasting their time on X when they could be doing Y" argument enough that it makes me want to vomit.)
-- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Crazycomputers
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