On 6/4/06, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
On Thu, 1 Jun 2006 16:54:11 -0700, you wrote:
One RFC? Sure. One particularly upset complaintant? Sure. Your kickback from the community is far, far past that.
The community? Whoa! Tony pisses me off, too, but I can see when he has a point - which is pretty much always. Take a deep breath and ask what we are here for. Social networking? Glory? Ego? Or to build an encyclopaedia? In each of the numerous cases where Tony has wound me up, it has been because he unilaterally did something which was good for the encyclopaedia, and "fuck process". I think that may even be a direct quote from him.
A lot of the people who kick back against Tony via these RfCs are problem editors, just like a lot of the whining that goes on here and at Wikipedia Review is from frustrated POV warriors.
Which of those categories do I fall into, praytell? 8-)
Even discounting a lot of the pile-on me-too complaints against Tony from problem editors, there remain significant numbers of people who aren't and object to some of the stuff he's done.
My objection in short: "Fuck process" is, here and now, more of a problem for Wikipedia than any of the individual wrongs Tony has righted using that justification, of late. Playing well with others is more important now.