Perhaps because on Commons village pump, non-regulars, interacting
politely and civilly, are harassed, abused and also blocked without cause.
Perhaps because the discussion system at Commons is broken, and
participation there is oftentimes a complete waste of time.
BRUENTRUP
On 12/13/14, Fæ <faewik(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I cannot see the point of raising questions about how
Commons works here
rather than on Commons.
All of these points have been raised before and discussed on the village
pump.
Other threads on this list were argued to be about multiple projects, this
is not.
Fae
On 13 Dec 2014 16:06, "MZMcBride" <z(a)mzmcbride.com> wrote:
> Jane Darnell wrote:
> >No, tagging is different. GerardM blogged about this with the example of
> >"horse". You can "tag" a photo as being of a horse by putting
it in the
> >horse category, but in no time it will be filed under some subcategory of
> >horse. There are relatively few images in the top "horse" category.
>
> This is one of the most baffling parts of Commons to me. Why is it a
> problem to have images of horses in Category:Horse? You seem to be
> describing a social problem ("it will be filed under some subcategory [by
> a person]"), not a technical problem. If people are vandalizing files by
> removing useful categories, we should tell them to stop immediately.
>