On 20 Nov 2005 at 17:33, El C el.ceeh@gmail.com wrote:
You're welcome. I post with gmail, I don't usually write my posts in it in case it crashes on refresh. I usually get the quotes mixed up, copying text from wordpad into gmail does strange things, apperently (this time with stars).
A few tips on keeping your replies well-organized so they don't turn into tangled messes:
* Always leave a blank line between each section of quoted material and each section of reply, so they don't run together and make it hard to tell which is which.
* Trim down quoted material to the minimum needed to establish context. Snip out unnecessary parts, especially signature blocks and list footers; there's no need to quote that stuff back.
* Put your answer after the question you are answering instead of before; this is not the Jeopardy! game show.
Those who refuse to consider the option of incentive are violently objectionable.
Money isn't the only possible incentive. And any system not involving slave labor, in which work actually gets done, obviously includes incentives sufficient to get the people involved to do the work. (Well, I guess slave labor does too, if you consider "keeping from getting whipped to death" an incentive.) Are you claiming that, due to declining the use of paid staff, Wikipedia will end up forced into acquiring slaves to do its work?
-- == Dan ==
Isn't that what its doing now? I feel rather intimidated by the slavemasters whip (arbcom) at the moment...
Jack (Sam Spade)
Jack Lynch stated for the record:
Isn't that what its doing now? I feel rather intimidated by the slavemasters whip (arbcom) at the moment...
Jack (Sam Spade)
You think that the enforcement of community rules on a volunteer-run Web site is comparable with slavery.
/me boggles.
-- Sean Barrett | And that's the latest version sean@epoptic.org | of the Internet, right?
I think that people with clearly hostile sentiments judging me and 4 others based on a near complete lack of evidence, at this juncture (right after my long and loud complaint about lack of recusals) is unfortunate.
My comment about slavery and whatnot was obviously an absurdist interpretation of current events, rather than a literal depiction of them.
Jack (Sam Spade)
On 11/21/05, Sean Barrett sean@epoptic.org wrote:
Jack Lynch stated for the record:
Isn't that what its doing now? I feel rather intimidated by the slavemasters whip (arbcom) at the moment...
Jack (Sam Spade)
You think that the enforcement of community rules on a volunteer-run Web site is comparable with slavery.
/me boggles.
-- Sean Barrett | And that's the latest version sean@epoptic.org | of the Internet, right? _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l