On 2/20/06, Death Phoenix <originaldeathphoenix(a)gmail.com> wrote:
While I don't agree with everything
you're saying or the way you're
saying
it, you make one interesting point: if Jimbo just
came right out now and
said "You are only allowed to have this sort of userbox, and you are
only
allowed to have x amount of them", this
userbox fiasco would come to an
end:
admins can go around deleting them and all the
userbox defenders would
have
nothing (concrete) to say about it. Conversely,
if Jimbo said "all
userboxes
are fine", the userbox defenders are free to
keep their userboxes, the
admins will know not to delete anything, and we'll all be fine.
I'm sure that part of the reason he hasn't is because he doesn't know
what
the right solution is, but the longer he waits,
the longer this whole
userbox fiasco's going to play out. But signs are really beginning to
point
to the fact that Jimbo will need to make an
official decree about this
whole
mess.
I don't think it's a foregone conclusion that this situation will get
worse without a decree from above. And it's not as if there is some
obvious consensus about what to do. Any strong decision handed down is
likely to have a fair number of people in disagreement.
Yes, but even with disagreement, such a decree would have the authority
behind it. A great many people disagreed with Jimbo's actions in the
pedophile userbox wheel war, but his actions still carried the weight of his
ultimate authority of Wikipedia. Regardless of whether people agreed with
his actions or sentiment, the matter was dealt with very quickly.