on 1/30/07 8:35 PM, Stan Shebs at stanshebs(a)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.