I do not cite policy without reading it. Guy has the personal opinion that spoilers are not good, and he disrupts the normal functioning of Wikipedia to make this point, even when consensus is clearly against him.
Molu
P.S. I don't know what makes a top-posting or what doesn't. I don't know many different ways of sending emails.
On Sat, 20 May 2006 01:46:50 +1000 Mark Gallagher wrote:
G'day Molu, [Gah! Top-posting again! It's not that hard to send an email, man!]
See [[WP:POINT]]. You are delibarately disrupting a reader's experience of WIkipedia by removing spoiler notices when the consensus is clearly for keeping them. This sort of thing when done with malicious intent is called vandalism.
That has nothing to do with WP:POINT. I suggest that you, and everyone else who repeatedly cites it without actually knowing what it means, actually *read* the damn page instead of simply falling in love with the name.
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On May 19, 2006, at 10:31 AM, Molu wrote:
I do not cite policy without reading it. Guy has the personal opinion that spoilers are not good, and he disrupts the normal functioning of Wikipedia to make this point, even when consensus is clearly against him.
OK, you read the policy. Now *understand it*.
G'day Molu,
On Sat, 20 May 2006 01:46:50 +1000 Mark Gallagher wrote:
G'day Molu, [Gah! Top-posting again! It's not that hard to send an email, man!]
See [[WP:POINT]]. You are delibarately disrupting a reader's experience of WIkipedia by removing spoiler notices when the consensus is clearly for keeping them. This sort of thing when done with malicious intent is called vandalism.
That has nothing to do with WP:POINT. I suggest that you, and everyone else who repeatedly cites it without actually knowing what it means, actually *read* the damn page instead of simply falling in love with the name.
I do not cite policy without reading it. Guy has the personal opinion that spoilers are not good, and he disrupts the normal functioning of Wikipedia to make this point, even when consensus is clearly against him.
That's *not* what WP:POINT says. Please read it again.
If Guy was a *fan* of the spoiler warnings, and removed them to prove that the flood of complaints we'd receive from people such as your good self would be overwhelming, *that* would be WP:POINT. Or if he hated them, so he added them to articles on non-fiction (e.g. [[Titanic]]) to show how silly they are, *that* would be WP:POINT as well. He'd be causing disruption, and making edits he knows are inappropriate, solely to prove a point that would be better made (without disrupting anything) in conversation.
But a simple case of "I believe something, and I'm going to act on that" is not WP:POINT, it's WP:BOLD.
P.S. I don't know what makes a top-posting or what doesn't. I don't know many different ways of sending emails.
Compare my message to yours. I'm making my comments below those comments of yours that I'm replying to. You're just throwing everything above the line, so that we have to scroll down to find out what on Earth you're talking about.
Interleaving comments instead of top-posting is free, easy, and comes with a sense of moral satisfaction you'll be itching to feel.
Mark Gallagher wrote:
G'day Molu,
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P.S. I don't know what makes a top-posting or what doesn't. I don't know many different ways of sending emails.
Compare my message to yours. I'm making my comments below those comments of yours that I'm replying to. You're just throwing everything above the line, so that we have to scroll down to find out what on Earth you're talking about.
Interleaving comments instead of top-posting is free, easy, and comes with a sense of moral satisfaction you'll be itching to feel.
Don't forget that:
Top-posters don't snip. Also, they eat kittens and have scaly skin. Bottom-bosters (also known as "interleavers" or "the chosen ones") snip, smell really nice, and are good friends in time of need. Remember that.
Your good friend,