On 13/07/07, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 08:56:44 -0700 (PDT), Ken Arromdee arromdee@rahul.net wrote:
They are comparable *in the way described*, which is that anyone can add anything to them, and what is added could potentially hurt someone.
See above: the comparison is invalid because the base premise of WR is to encourage harassment, attacks, privacy violation and outing, whereas the base premise of wikien-l is to support the work of building an encyclopaedia.
No, no. The base premise of WR is to intelligently criticise Wikipedia. However, its actual *behaviour* is to encourage harassment, attacks, privacy violations and outing. And the base premise of Encyclopedia Dramatica is to fuck shit up in the pursuit of lulz, hence a blanket ban being a distinct plus for writing an encyclopedia.
- d.