On 21/11/2007, Daniel R. Tobias dan@tobias.name wrote:
I find it interesting, and a little distressing, that there seems to be a "groupthink" phenomenon on this list (and also sometimes on Wikipedia itself). I saw it just now in the discussion of an expulsion from this list. When it was first brought up for comment, there was a "me-too" chorus of agreement with the ban. Then, a day later, I posted my dissenting commentary (which I actually wrote yesterday, but failed to successfully post due to a misconfigured mail program... getting outbound mail sent while on vacation and using various different access providers is a pain with all the security moves and port blocking tossing up hoops to be navigated), and suddenly there were several other dissenting views following in close succession.
Surely that's *why* you posted your views, in order to try and convince people to agree with you. That's how discussions work - if someone makes a good point, people tend to agree with it.