On 2/20/06, Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com wrote:
On 2/20/06, Death Phoenix originaldeathphoenix@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.