Lord Voldemort wrote:
On 6/20/06, The Cunctator cunctator@gmail.com wrote:
[snip] It's difficult to tell and Wales isn't particularly interested in doing honest critical analyses of the effects of his policies.
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This is a complicated matter and neither the NYT, nor Jimmy, nor BoingBoing is helping matters by oversimplifying the debate.
Well, to be fair to Jimmy, it really isn't _his_ policy. By framing the debate with this in mind, I think you too are oversimplifying. ;-) It was a policy decided by community consensus.
And, I should add to this. I never ever heard of semi-protection until the community consensus was overwhelming to have it implemented. Someone pointed me to the discussion and page about it, and I thought: wow, this is brilliant, I fully support it.
But, yes, it is absolutely not possible for me to claim credit for semi-protection. It is a brilliant innovation that allows us to be more open than before, when we only had the tool of protection. But it is not my innovation, and I do not know who first thought of it.