On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Ken Arromdee arromdee@rahul.net wrote:
Generally, I'm not a fan of this sort of joke. They give the impression of "we get to break the rules when we want to, as long as it's funny. Meanwhile, everyone else has to follow them."
(And WP:COI really does seem to say it's a conflict of interest for an article about the Earth to be made by Earthlings. It's easy to invoke IAR and say that that's not what it's supposed to mean, but it's not all that different from other examples that we're supposed to take seriously as being COI.)
Oh, lighten up! People are just having a little fun, no one takes it seriously, and no one is "breaking the rules". People are just having a laugh! It's a small bit of satire at the culture at AfD, and an opportunity for people to make Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (our spiritual ancestor) jokes.
--Oskar