On Thu, 1 Jun 2006 16:54:11 -0700, you wrote:
One RFC? Sure. One particularly upset complaintant? Sure. Your kickback from the community is far, far past that.
The community? Whoa! Tony pisses me off, too, but I can see when he has a point - which is pretty much always. Take a deep breath and ask what we are here for. Social networking? Glory? Ego? Or to build an encyclopaedia? In each of the numerous cases where Tony has wound me up, it has been because he unilaterally did something which was good for the encyclopaedia, and "fuck process". I think that may even be a direct quote from him.
A lot of the people who kick back against Tony via these RfCs are problem editors, just like a lot of the whining that goes on here and at Wikipedia Review is from frustrated POV warriors.
Guy (JzG)