Alex G wrote:
Any resemblance between my comments and those of Larouche is purely
coincidental. Though I concede that Larouche may, like Jimbo, have more
than his fair share of toadies.
Ec
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 5:38 PM, Ray Saintonge
<saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote:
> David Gerard wrote:
>
>> He also has, separately from his Board role, the final smackdown on
>> en:wp, which he almost never uses (it's delegated to the Arbitration
>> Committee because Jimbo doesn't scale) and which causes great
>> arguments every time he does.
>>
> I'm sure there are a lot of people who see his comments on either side
> of a dispute as so much drive-by. Given the amount of his travelling,
> his participation in some of these chronic debates is necessarily limited.
>
>> I find myself amazed at how outsiders think Jimbo has absolute power
>> at Wikipedia, when if he said the sky was blue lots of people would
>> disagree almost by reflex ... and then it's down to his powers of
>> persuasion, same as if any of us want to convince people of something.
>> I suppose he has a lot more ears listening to him.
>>
> There's a certain amount of hero-worshiping going on, whether he agrees
> with it or not. It's more like a game of Simon says. There are any
> number of debaters who are not past trying to win an argument saying,
> "But on September 30, 2004, Jimbo said ..." He may have changed his
> mind since, or the quotation may be out of context. Such drop-dead
> arguments from authority tend to circumvent whatever the real current
> issue.
>