[WikiEN-l] The Simpsons is an Attack Site... er... Show!

[Ray Saintonge]

Andrew Gray wrote:
> And we veer back into self-parody again...
>
> I've written before about the project sliding deeper and deeper into a
> 'siege mentality' - us versus them, the outsiders are big and evil and
> scary, we must protect ourselves, we must build bigger walls, etc.
> Both the response to external criticism and the "attack sites" thing
> are examples of this - but they're also both the sort of thing that
> *perpetuate* it, help drive the community into a more and more
> insular, paranoid, unhappy state.
Self-parody is only a problem when we aren't aware that we are doing 
it.  Naming someone like Stephen Colbert to the Advisory Board could 
burst a few balloons.

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