Give people their own page/room/clothing and a way to customize it, and do so to show their identity, as an end in itself. Seems pretty harmless.
On 1/5/06, jayjg jayjg99@gmail.com wrote:
On 1/5/06, Carbonite carbonite.wp@gmail.com wrote:
On 1/5/06, Tony Sidaway f.crdfa@gmail.com wrote:
You know I suspect that we're making this whole thing unnecessarily complicated. Why don't we just let people keep their userbox templates but remove the categories? I'm pretty sure that doing so would make instances of abuse pretty rare. The boxes themselves aren't really much of a problem, they're just a means of self-expression.
I tried removing the categories from the templates that had been nominated for deletion. This was reverted almost immediately...by someone with less than 50 article edits (but with over 700 total edits). That's when I began to wonder who was running the asylum.
Ah yes, an editor who manages to devote only 6% of his edits to articles, who has apparently never felt the need to make even *one* comment on an article Talk: page, and who has 4 times as many edits to his user page as to the encyclopedia itself. Well, on the bright side, he appears to have only 26 userboxes on his user page.
Um, what are these people doing here again?
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