On 28/05/07, Slim Virgin slimvirgin@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/28/07, Brock Weller brock.weller@gmail.com wrote:
For the record, calling them opponents just seems dumb. We're writing an encyclopedia, not engaged in a giant good vs evil war for the future of humanity. As soon as we start framing things in this way means we have started taking things to seriously and need to step back and breathe for a minute.
The problem is that not everyone is engaged in writing an encyclopedia. An increasingly large number of people hang around Wikipedia project space to stir up conflict, and they tend to be the ones who want to link to these sites. And before you jump down my throat, I'm not saying that everyone who supports the pro-linking position is just a troublemaker, but a fair number of them are.
The supporters of BADSITES talk sweet reason, but every time they *act* upon the idea they act like rabid killbots on crack. Surely you can see this introduces scepticism, and is also why many of us have profound scepticism of the idea.
The attempt to abuse an RFA to try to backdoor in an utterly failed bad policy proposal is disgraceful.
- d.