[WikiEN-l] The shrill doomsayers of Wikipedia (was: in the last year hatespeech seems to have become acceptable)

[Michael Snow]

David Gerard wrote:

> On 07/04/04 15:02, Robert wrote:
>
>> But in the last year hatespeech seems to have become
>> acceptable, and those who use it have been rewarded, while
>> victims of it are attacked. This is a sad turn of events,
>> and will cause Wikipedia's repuation to suffer terribly.
>> Already many academics I know view Wikipedia as hopeless;
>> but if this phenomenon spreads its reputation will be
>> hopelessly tarnished.
>
> This sounds like circular discussions with 142/entmoots on IRC.
> He says Wikipedia's policy direction is hopelessly flawed and he
> wants to change it to protect the 'GFDL corpus'. 

Yes, it's quite ironic that two such bitter enemies as Robert Kaiser and 
Craig Hubley do start to sound pretty much the same in the end.

--Michael Snow