On Nov 21, 2007 2:05 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 21/11/2007, jayjg jayjg99@gmail.com wrote:
On Nov 21, 2007 1:31 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
The deletion of encyclopedic links to nielsenhayden.com by Will Beback.
That old chestnut? It's the other strawman used as the rallying cry. Will realized he made an error, and apologized profusely. The whole issue was over long ago, but anti-BADSITES people bring it up again and again and again, as that one incident has been extremely useful.
Except that when he came back here to push a policy apparently indistinguishable from BADSITES, he was notably unable and/or unwilling to explain what he thought he had done wrong in this case, or why his actions had upset people. That unfortunately removes some power from the apology.
I think it would be better to let him explain his actions, and take his apology at face value.
People misapply *real* policy every day, we don't then say OMG BAD POLICY, IT MUST GO!!!!!
Well, actually, we do quite a bit in my experience ...
Hmm. Not to this extent, in my experience.
... for other than encyclopedic reasons.
One man's encyclopedic reasons...
I welcome your encyclopedic justification for the removal of the nielsenhayden.com links.
Why on earth would I try to justify an error that has been apologized for? Raising it again is more of the same, really, heat not light.