On 2/22/06, Ben Lowe <ben.lowe(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Not only would a number of users simply leave (the
benefits and final
ramifications of which I'm sure many people have many different opinions
on), and not only would it generate bad press from the snickering Wikipedia
Defeatists ("looks like Wikipedia can't allow everyone to edit it after
all!" You know that'd start showing up), but the remaining people who want
user pages would do what [[User:Tony Sidaway]] has done, and simply
userpagify their talk pages (That Tony Sidaway... always sticking it to the
man! *;-)* ), bringing us back to square one.
Um :)
My talkification of my userpage (or was it the userfication of my talk
page?) came out of boredom with a completely useless talk page. All
the interesting stuff is on the talk page, so why waste time
maintaining both?
Needless to say I make vastly more use of userspace than most Wikipedians.
Of course this isn't about self expression at all, but about its
reverse: uniformity and regimentation. They must die.