On 1/3/06, Ryan Delaney ryan.delaney@gmail.com wrote:
This isn't a question of constitutionality. It's a question of, I don't know, respect? This thing seems a lot to me like the Wikipedia Chess Championship (which I note at least one Arb is playing in), which was also VfD'd on the grounds that it had nothing to do with building an encyclopedia. That VFD failed, incidentally, on the grounds that the project wasn't hurting anything and it was a fun way for users to cool their heels. Userboxes are like that- and you might have gotten the same kind of useful discussion, if you had bothered to discuss it with others before making your decision that the userboxes must die. (Is this an example of IAR gone too far?)
The difference is that the chess tournament didn't violate copyright, and when told to stop violating copyright, scream that its free speech rights were being violated.
The userbox aficianadoes are.
Kelly