On 7/6/05, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
A better solution would just be to put the game players on notice that if there is substantial participation in the games by people who are not participating in the wiki then the games will be shut down (and this thread has already made that clear)... Then peer pressure will keep people participating in the wiki. As far as I can tell, there is currently no problem but if one arises this simple measure should correct it.
Which brings up an important point: The detractors here have been complaining about loft what ifs... The wiki is actually a fairly lame environment for most of the games people are currently playing. There are far better sites on the internet focused on these games. The only advantage of playing the games in the wiki is for members of our community to stay close to the community.
Well said!
If we have editors who are exclusively curmudgeonly joy-killers, then we are going to have endless grumping and conflict. Let conflicts be resolved over a friendly game of checkers, I say!