[WikiEN-l] Why are veterans so militant of late; The Future. (was Bus Uncle)

[Ray Saintonge]

Joe Szilagyi wrote:

>On the one hand, any and all people "in power" will be de-valued if this
>occurs. Your voice, my voice--we're just one more person in the crowd if
>this comes to pass. No one person will be able to ram anything, good or bad,
>theoretically down Wikipedia's throat as it happens now all too frequently.
>Appealing to populism will be how things will need to get done. 
>
You clearly do not understand the negative aspects of populism.

>The mass
>titanic shifts with BLP currently underway--where a very small minority of
>users are very aggressively trying to change the tone of something more to
>their suiting... will be impossibly harder to get to stick. On the other
>hand, populist ideas--BADSITES, anyone?--will be able to gain traction
>easily. 
>
I reject your notion that BADSITES was a populist idea.

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