On 8/11/06, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
Whats so hard about "we welcome text which is good, no matter who or how it was created and we reject or repair text which is bad."?
I thought that *was* our credo - presuming "good" rules out copyright infringement. I would like to hear more of an explanation behind this rejection of apparent "conflict of interest". There's got to be more to this than that. I agree with Jimbo on almost everything he does, so I'm hoping I will end up understanding where he's coming from in acting so swiftly and so strongly in blocking (at first) an editor apparently contributing useful text.
For or against paid editing? Paid editing is an orthogonal issue. I wish all of our contributors could be better compensated for their fantastic contributions.
Yeah!
If we can't cope with bias coming from known-interested sources then we have no hope... most biased sources do not announce their intentions.
Exactly. One of the reasons I found it bizarre to block the US Congress. Much better just to watch it. Then you give people two options: edit openly and responsibly from their real IP address, or find a different IP address and do whatever the hell they want.
Steve