[Foundation-l] Controversial Content Study Update

[phoebe ayers]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 5:49 PM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 8:17 AM, David Goodman <dgoodmanny at gmail.com> wrote:
>> It is possible that there is a difference between what the WMF is
>> interested in and what the community is interested in, something which
>> makes itself evident when there is no responses from people in the
>> various projects. . I'm aware there are various portions of the
>> community, but I can only judge by the responses from my own
>> projects.--and this does not mean that I myself am necessarily not
>> interested, as can in fact be seen by my commenting here !
>
> David and all,
>
> This is an interesting problem in general: what to do with hot topics
> that don't have sustained interest. There certainly seemed to be
> enough interest in objectionable content a few months ago, or at least
> enough interest to warrant looking into it further. I suspect the
> concerns and ideas that people raised then haven't actually gone away
> over the summer.

or winter! I vowed some time ago to not be northern-hemisphere-ist,
but I still slip up. Hard to think about it being winter elsewhere
when it's 39C outside here....

phoebe