On 22/04/2008, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
Person B's response gives me hope that this believe system is not yet the majority view. ... So I'm left wondering, how the heck did this start happening, and how can it be avoided? Is it the result of how the policies are presented? Or are there just a few bad applies that need to be disinvited from the community. Thoughts?
The problem is pathologically literalist geeks so socially crippled they don't realise they are with a chronic inability not to hair-split down to the Planck length.
They do have a point, and that's why WP:BLP only works because it's the basic content rules (NPOV, NOR, V) applied in a really really hard-arsed manner.
But I think they need to be reminded to be human. Not that I know how.
- d.