On 9/1/07, Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote:
Matthew Britton wrote:
Erik Moeller wrote:
- I do not believe that we should ever sacrifice
friendliness "for the
greater good".
You haven't edited the English Wikipedia recently, have you?
If we let
ourselves be guided by the excesses of some English
Wikipedians, and use that or a reaction to that as a foundation for our
values we are deeper in the doo-doo than I ever would have imagined.
You had me till "excesses of some". While I can not pretend to speak
for anyone but myself, I cannot deny that emphasizing various super-
ordinate goals (wisely or otherwise; I genuinely will not say which) has
led to a *systemic* culture of "balancing" the value of contributions
and the behaviour of the contributors who have made them. The
Arbitration Committee deserves much of the praise/blame here.
--
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]]