On 1/4/06, slimvirgin@gmail.com slimvirgin@gmail.com wrote:
These unproductive users cause harm every day on hundreds of talk pages and articles, editing carelessly, insulting people, looking for ways to cause trouble, coming back with sock puppets if blocked, getting friends from outside Wikipedia to join in revert wars. The user box issue is just the first time they've joined forces, and it's a good thing in a way that it's happening over this and not over some policy change they try to force through, which will happen soon enough if we don't get a grip.
You're saying that people who play with userboxes do this? You'd better ban me from the project right away; I'm a scourge to Wikipedia, apparently. Congrats, you've just alienated one more productive editor.
Ryan