Well, but unlike bumper stickers, you never go out to find support from others based on them.
I think blocs are a bad idea especially if voting in any form is used to make sense of "consensus". Though I don't know where exactly to draw the line between that and asking a few other well-respected users for their opinions at times. There *is* a line there, but it's a fuzzy one.
FF
On 1/3/06, charles matthews charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
"Tony Sidaway" wrote
The scope for abuse of these userboxes has been amply demostrated.
They fulfil no function useful to the encyclopedia that isn't done equally well by simply stating one's affiliations on one's user page. They must die.
They fulfil a function, or you wouldn't be bringing it up. I am against all polarising moves on WP, since I think we need to gather in the centre ground to do the job. (Like not making centre versus center a big deal, for example.)
But I don't think you're going to win on this one. I would quite agree that they are no better than bumper stickers, in many cases.
Charles
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