Alec wrote:
If you strongly oppose BADSITES but are the kind of
person who really
needs a happy, civil working environment to make it pleasant to edit
wikipedia, you really either have to make a pseudonym or you have to
just have to keep your mouth shut.
I strongly oppose BADSITES, and I am the kind of person who really needs
a happy, civil working environment, and I think it important for the
preservation of that to both openly oppose BADSITES and to do it using
my own name and reputation.
You can't win debates in Wikipedia by sockpuppeting. It is just not a
very useful strategy, even without getting into the ethical issues.
BADSITES was a badly written policy proposal and it died a rightful
death. At the same time, virtually no one thinks that we need nothing
in that general neighborhood... there really is such a thing as a link
that should not be in wikipedia, and there really is such a thing as
personal attack through linking.
The hard part is getting something accomplished in an environment where
people are hurting and where other people are afraid of speaking out.
Let's try to move past that.
--Jimbo