[WikiEN-l] Correction to New Yorker Article

[David Gerard]

On 03/03/07, William Pietri <william at scissor.com> wrote:

> P.S. Maybe part of the difference in reactions here is that I look at a
> lot of the comments and I tend to automatically discount the very
> emotional ones? Doing that and trying to pull some consensus position
> out of the RFC gives me some comfort, as I feel like it's not far from
> what Jimbo decided to do.


People were deleting comments from the RFC they felt "didn't help"
matters, i.e. were not sufficiently negative toward Essjay. So I would
discount it as a test of public opinion.


- d.