On Feb 5, 2008 11:28 AM, Steve Summit scs@eskimo.com wrote:
(But although this sort of thing seems like an obvious and reasonable compromise to me, I'm not so sure we could just "ram one through", because plenty of people do seem to equate such things with unacceptable censorship. See e.g. Chris Howie's comments elsethread: "We do not censor ourselves. This includes opt-in/out mechanisms that are censorship bearing the form of a reasonable compromise.")
It would be putting into the hands of editors the power to decide what is offensive and what is not. This is an extremely subjective matter and we would wind up with "Wikipedia for Weak-stomached/easily-offended people." Not that I have any objection to such a thing, but if it's to happen it should be a fork.
It's time we stop apologizing for the good we are trying to do.