[WikiEN-l] Totally unscientific investigation...
David Gerard
dgerard at gmail.com
Mon Nov 14 17:39:55 UTC 2005
geni wrote:
>On 11/14/05, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>> That's absolutely and incredibly not true. They write a verifiable
>> article about something they know, get abusive comments on AFD (for
>> some reason, civility and assume good faith don't work there ... the
>> reason AFD is so damn poisonous to the community is that it blatantly
>> encourages participants to assume *bad* faith) and *leave*.
>That would be unusal. More likely they will simply be ignored. Most
>stuff that lands on afd is not implicetly verifiable.
Case where this happened really badly: webcomics. We now have a
project fork, Comixpedia, entirely caused by AFD. You may recall
extensive discussion surrounding this on this list a few weeks ago.
- d.
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