On Nov 6, 2007 2:59 PM, Monahon, Peter B. <Peter.Monahon(a)uspto.gov> wrote:
Earlier: there
is a big difference between "a necessarily imperfect
work in progress"
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George_S._Patton&curid=42090&…
iff=169628093&oldid=169618698 (first diff on English WP RC when I
loaded it) ... At least this instance of vandalism is probably not going
to [do?] material harm to anyone..."
So, we agree about dispensing with spam and vandalism and off topic
contributions. Now that we have that out of the way, perhaps we can
agree to leave such irrelevant straw-men out of conversations about ...
biting newbies.
That would be much easier if people would stop armwaving and SHOW SOME EXAMPLES.
Come on. If this newbie biting is so rampant, just provide some
examples... and then we can talk about those.
I'm not claiming that it's not happening, but boilerplate messages
have been implicated I've been looking at their use... and the only
thing I've been able to find in a couple of minutes of looking is that
we're spending too much time asking obviously malicious people to be
nice.