[WikiEN-l] Userbox fads

[Tony Sidaway]

On 1/5/06, Peter Mackay <peter.mackay at bigpond.com> wrote:
> > From: wikien-l-bounces at Wikipedia.org
> > [mailto:wikien-l-bounces at Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Garion1000
> >
> > On 1/5/06, Geoff Burling <llywrch at agora.rdrop.com> wrote:
> > > . People of the same POV have always found each other on
> > Wikipedia, &
> > > Userboxes are hardly a powerful new tool to accomplish this.
> >
> > But userboxes makes it a lot easier to do so. Look it two
> > AFD's. The one for
> > some catholic encyclopedians and the gay rights in iraq article.
>
> So what are you saying? It should be *hard* for Wikipedians to find others
> with similar interests?
>

Well it shouldn't be so absurdly easy that it fosters campaigning. 
This is an encyclopedia, not a dating service.