[WikiEN-l] Time to reboot wikien-l

[Chad]

I'm all for banning mentioning of BADSITES on and off-wiki. To those
not embroiled in the long-dead debate, it's getting quite old.

Remember CyclePat and his incessant nagging to have AMA restored after
everyone had shot it down? Yeah, it's starting to look like that.

Chad H.

On Nov 21, 2007 7:50 PM, jayjg <jayjg99 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 21, 2007 7:29 PM, Michael Noda <michael.noda at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Nov 21, 2007 7:19 PM, Steve Summit <scs at eskimo.com> wrote:
> >
> > > jayjg wrote:
> > > > On Nov 21, 2007 6:10 PM,  <joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu> wrote:
> > > >> Quoting jayjg <jayjg99 at gmail.com>:
> > > >>> On Nov 21, 2007 2:31 PM,  <joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu> wrote:
> > > >>>> Quoting jayjg <jayjg99 at gmail.com>:
> > > >>>>> On Nov 21, 2007 1:57 PM,  <joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu> wrote:
> > > >>>>>> Quoting jayjg <jayjg99 at gmail.com>:
> > > >>>>>>> On Nov 21, 2007 1:12 PM,  <joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu> wrote:
> > > >>>>>>>> Quoting jayjg <jayjg99 at gmail.com>:
> > > >>>>>>>>> On Nov 21, 2007 11:54 AM,  <joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu> wrote:
> > > >>>>>>>>>>> ...
> > >
> > > In seriousness, I think the moderators should consider putting
> > > jayjg and Joshua on moderation for 36 hours or so, so that they
> > > -- and the rest of us -- can enjoy the holiday in peace, without
> > > feeling compelled to respond to every minute twist in this
> > > tendentious and unstoppable argument with ever-more-tedious
> > > ripostes...
> >
> > Seconded.  And if the mods are serious about cracking down on list
> > abuse, they might consider the threadjacking and querulous bickering
> > that has taken place here and think about a longer term than 36 hours
> > in the moderation pen.
>
> Here's an even better idea; rather than attempting to quash the
> viewpoints of people with whom we disagree, let's instead have a
> moratorium on any mention of BADSITES or Making Lights etc. on the
> list at all. As I said before, those horses are thoroughly beaten and
> long dead. Let's give them an honorable burial, and promise never to
> mention them again.
>
>
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