On 1/4/06, Chris Jenkinson chris@starglade.org wrote:
Tony Sidaway wrote:
We may lose them, but they'll be welcome on livejournal and myspace. I cannot imagine losing any serious contributor just because we say "no, we don't allow people to create userboxes that place them into categories by point of view--it promotes factionalism and has in the past resulted in serious attempts to subvert consensus."
I think if people are going to leave over this it'll be because they hate the idea of admins taking matters into their own hands rather than discussing it first.
When the house is on fire, you don't hold a discussion. It's been suggested elsewhere that the usera engaged in this fad are not regular editors. They can go back to wherever they came from.