On 2/22/06, Ben Lowe ben.lowe@gmail.com wrote:
Not only would a number of users simply leave (the benefits and final ramifications of which I'm sure many people have many different opinions on), and not only would it generate bad press from the snickering Wikipedia Defeatists ("looks like Wikipedia can't allow everyone to edit it after all!" You know that'd start showing up), but the remaining people who want user pages would do what [[User:Tony Sidaway]] has done, and simply userpagify their talk pages (That Tony Sidaway... always sticking it to the man! *;-)* ), bringing us back to square one.
Um :)
My talkification of my userpage (or was it the userfication of my talk page?) came out of boredom with a completely useless talk page. All the interesting stuff is on the talk page, so why waste time maintaining both?
Needless to say I make vastly more use of userspace than most Wikipedians.
Of course this isn't about self expression at all, but about its reverse: uniformity and regimentation. They must die.