dpbsmith wrote:
I'd like to redefine "vanity" as meaning "an imbalanced mix of motives in which serving the needs of the contributor outweights serving the needs of the reader."
Apart from the problem of unnecessarily redefining a word in English as a jargon term of quite different meaning, I really don't see how this will lead to *less* subjectivity and contentiousness.
Hagiographic fan writing is a problem to deal with at editorial level. It is *not* something the deletion process can reasonably be twisted to deal with.
- d.