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6/4/2007 7:22 PM:
I don't know about you, but I spend time on
Wikipedia because it's fun
and because it's rewarding when it's not fun.
BJAODN is a great example of people taking something annoying and making
it fun. It's proof that we jointly have a sense of fun, an esprit de
corps, a belief that all the idiots in the world can't spoil this for
us. Rather, it was proof of that. Honestly, I haven't looked at it much
lately, but first coming across it was a joy, like finding an easter egg
in a treasured game.
The reason to put it back, and to clean it up if it needs cleaning, is
to show that spirit still lives. That will help us keep good editors and
attract new ones.
For me personally, another part of the motivation is as much the manner
in which this was done as the outcome. I thought it was rude,
unnecessarily dramatic and wasteful, and I'm unconvinced that this
happened out of a pure-minded desire to treat our contributors fairly
under the GFDL. It feels to me like somebody rammed something down the
community's throat without any attempt to build consensus.
I don't even like good decisions done like that, and so that magnifies
the harm I see in what I think is a bad decision.
I concur with William. Undelete
this, tag it with {{humor}}, and move
along.
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Charli (vishwin60/zelzany)
Computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as
kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and
listening to repetitive music. ~Marcus Brigstocke
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