Andrew Gray wrote:
And we veer back into self-parody again...
I've written before about the project sliding deeper and deeper into a 'siege mentality' - us versus them, the outsiders are big and evil and scary, we must protect ourselves, we must build bigger walls, etc. Both the response to external criticism and the "attack sites" thing are examples of this - but they're also both the sort of thing that *perpetuate* it, help drive the community into a more and more insular, paranoid, unhappy state.
Self-parody is only a problem when we aren't aware that we are doing it. Naming someone like Stephen Colbert to the Advisory Board could burst a few balloons.
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