On 28/05/07, Slim Virgin <slimvirgin(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 5/28/07, Brock Weller
<brock.weller(a)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.