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.