On 7/12/07, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 19:23:37 -0700, "George Herbert" george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
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Snipping some very wise words (and not just for MONGO), there is one important facet missing. MONGO's problems arise in no small part from the extreme determination of a small group of lunatics, the 9/11 conspiracy theorists. These people are barking mad, and MONGO enforced and enforces policy against them, in the process (and probably at least half intentionally) proving to them that their mad theories are both mad and negligible. They absolutely hate that, and they would hate it whoever was the messenger.
Without disagreeing that they're barking mad (and scientifically and engineeringally incompetent, as well), there have been tendencies by him and others on WP to overly marginalize any 9/11 conspiracy discussion.
There are many barking mad things we have articles and sometimes whole topic trees on.
I think we serve the project and readers badly by marginalizing it. A lot of people are curious about it; showing the theories openly and exposing them to the light of day is more effective.