On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 2:45 AM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
The complete absence of mentioning the de:wp poll that was 85% against any imposed filter is just *weird*. Not mentioning it, and not acknowledging why someone would do that, doesn't make it go away.
As you say, this blog post reads like someone forced to defend the indefensible, hence the glaringly defective arguments. This will convince no-one the post claims to be addressing.
- d.
It makes some sense. If you come to the conclusion that your constituency for a particularly important decision is a huge and diverse array of people (i.e. the readers), and then further conclude that opposition to your decision is coming from a very narrow and homogenous slice of that array (i.e. contributors)... Ignoring the opposition in favor of the "larger audience" could then be quite reasonable.
Nathan