On 1/4/06, Carbonite carbonite.wp@gmail.com wrote: [..]
With this setup, a userbox stating "This user is a Democrat" would be no different that a sentence on their user page stating that they're a Democrat. The user wouldn't be included in a category and couldn't be identified through Whatlinkshere. There also wouldn't be any concerns about censorship or stifling of free speech.
I'm sure this proposal could use some development, but it's a start. Thoughts?
Looks good. Perhaps a bot to chase around doing the necessary substing of unapproved templates, or at least to identify candidates that someone can fix manually--the code to do this is trivial.