[WikiEN-l] Re: Webcomics/Deletion again

[JAY JG]

>From: Sean Barrett <sean at epoptic.org>
>
>Mark Gallagher stated for the record:
> >
> > G'day Sean,
> >
> >> Note that the disruption is of /Wikipedia/.  It is impossible to
> >> disrupt /AfD/ with deletionism, no matter how lunatic -- that entire
> >> subsystem is maliciously designed to support and encourage lunatic
> >> deletionism.
> >
> >
> > I know the hyperbole on this list comes thick and fast most of the time,
> > but when readers start to seriously wish they could tag as {{nonsense}}
> > entire paragraphs of one's emails, it's time to think a little before
> > spewing crap.
>
>When a system is so destructively broken that numerous members of the
>community realize that it is impossible to repair and begin calling for
>its complete abolition (and use apt phrases such as "dynamite enema"),
>it is time for that system's defenders to question their fanaticism.

The hyperbole regarding AFD's "brokenness", including terms like 
"fanaticism" applied to its supporters, is not a strong argument that it is 
actually broken.

Jay.