--- Tony Sidaway f.crdfa@gmail.com wrote:
I've decided to recuse as a clerk in this one, mostly in order to say this: this case is about userboxes.
I had a quick look at it, and to me it would seem to be more a case about admins revert-warring using rollback; userboxes are just the backdrop.
More specifically, it is about the extremely destructive but widely denied effects on our community of the creation in template space of very large numbers of templates that have as their sole purpose the viral propagation of political opinions and the linking together of Wikipedians according to those opinions.
From the incidents that I hear about, much more destructive would seem to be
the way people (both pro and anti) care so much about userboxes that they'll act in daft ways to defend their positions. I'm not at all convinced that the use of userboxes as POV rallying tools is anywhere near as problematic as this.
-- Matt
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