on 1/30/07 8:35 PM, Stan Shebs at stanshebs@earthlink.net wrote:
True, it's never been put to a vote of all the editors. I am confident however that support for this rule would be 80-90% or even higher. There are online communities that are more rough-and-tumble, but the crowd here is generally not like that. No doubt there is an element of self-selection involved, but I note that it's always been possible to fork WP, and yet there's no forked Nastypedia where anybody can say anything to each other - so either the uncivil aren't sufficiently organized to create a fork (perhaps they're still flaming each other over which wiki software to use :-) ), or the people most interested in encyclopedia-building tend to dislike incivility. I could theorize further, but then I'd be treading on your territory. :-)
Stan,
I have no doubt that what you say here is true. I simply have a difficult time with telling anyone what they can and cannot say.
And, please, theorize all you want. Theorizing is the high falootin' term for saying "what if" - and we all have the right and the responsibility to say that.
Marc
-- You can dream of a moment for years, and still somehow miss it when it comes. You¹ve got to reach through the flames and take it - Or lose it forever.