David Gerard wrote:
On 22/04/2008, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
Person B's response gives me hope that this believe system is not yet the majority view. ... So I'm left wondering, how the heck did this start happening, and how can it be avoided? Is it the result of how the policies are presented? Or are there just a few bad applies that need to be disinvited from the community. Thoughts?
The problem is pathologically literalist geeks so socially crippled they don't realise they are with a chronic inability not to hair-split down to the Planck length.
They do have a point, and that's why WP:BLP only works because it's the basic content rules (NPOV, NOR, V) applied in a really really hard-arsed manner.
But I think they need to be reminded to be human. Not that I know how.
Is this the kind of ridiculous abuse that passes for discussion now? -- Gregory Maxwell calls people who disagree with his viewpoints, "bad apples that need to be disinvited from the community". -- David Gerard attacks people who disagree with him as "pathological" and "socially crippled", and implies that they aren't actually aware of how to be human.
What exactly do either of you hope to gain from this sort of juvenile name-calling? Do you think it will convince people who disagree with your viewpoints on how to write an encyclopedia that you've carefully thought through the matter and have reached an interesting proposal that they ought to give consideration to?
-Mark