(Fixing top post.)
On Jan 20, 2008 1:45 PM, David Goodman dgoodmanny@gmail.com wrote:
On Jan 19, 2008 7:40 PM, Chris Howie cdhowie@gmail.com wrote:
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.)
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.
I did say that I'm not condoning the behavior here, right? My point is that if you take away the ability to do X, volunteers won't magically rush to do Y.