[WikiEN-l] Re: Counter-Stupidity Unit (was Worst. Userbox. Ever.)

Peter Mackay peter.mackay at bigpond.com
Mon Feb 6 12:51:54 UTC 2006


> From: wikien-l-bounces at Wikipedia.org 
> [mailto:wikien-l-bounces at Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of David Gerard
 
> Peter Mackay wrote:
> > [mailto:wikien-l-bounces at Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of David Gerard
> 
> >> That's pretty much what I'm asking for ;-) Preferably people less 
> >> inclined than me to call a spade a fucking shovel.
> 
> >Don't ask people to do this. Tell them. I think that a lot of people 
> >who ask for power shouldn't have it. Where would we be if 
> juries were 
> >made up of those who held their hands up to do it?
> 
> 
> You underestimate my diplomatic powers when I try. "This user 
> is a _native_ speaker of _Bullshit_." We have ways of *asking nicely*.

<grin> I think an appeal to Wikilove should be sufficient. This whole
userbox thing should have been scotched early on before it got to ArbCom
involvement.

Peter (Skyring)





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