Except when it's a volunteer council. Then we're perfectly ok with not thinking, and ready to ignore the possibility of really bad consequences. I mean, who needs things like carefulness and legitimate open discussion anyway? When the criticism gets tough, we can just ignore it and move to read-only lists and private wikis.
-Dan On Apr 9, 2008, at 3:32 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote:
On 4/7/08, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
Milos Rancic wrote:
There are a couple of more really bad possibilities in that way, which raises the question: Does anyone really think about the possibility for really bad consequences?
Yes, I think a lot of people spend a lot of time thinking about the possibility of really bad consequences. That's why we are doing things so carefully and with full open discussion of the right way forward.
--Jimbo
I think this is quite right as a case of securing our butts, but even if we can't trust the law to be our friend, let's not lose sight of the fact that suing wikipedia would be very close to (to use a Budweiser analogy) suing cute puppy dogs.
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]]
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