[WikiEN-l] Time to reboot wikien-l

[Chad]

Then why can't it be dropped? If everyone's so sick of it, why do they keep
beating the horse? It's dead, mutilated, and starting to rot...

Chad H.

On Nov 22, 2007 12:17 AM, Risker <risker.wp at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi there Chad -
>
> If it is of any consolation to you, those of us who have been in the
> trenches on this issue for over six months are pretty tired of it too
> - heck, even I was ticked off to see this thread overrun by BADSITES
> babbling, especially from someone who hasn't participated in on-wiki
> discussion for over 3 months.  Pretty sad to see a policy being
> disrupted by nonconsensual editors, including many of good standing on
> both sides of the issue, for over half a year. At this point, the
> inability to come to a reasonable conclusion here appears to be
> symptomatic of a larger problem.  It's just a question of exactly what
> that larger problem is.
>
> Risker
>
>
> On Nov 21, 2007 11:30 PM, Chad <innocentkiller at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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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