[WikiEN-l] What's going on? - Inquiry 2

[Thomas Dalton]

On 13/09/2007, Marc Riddell <michaeldavid86 at comcast.net> wrote:
> on 9/13/07 6:14 AM, Anirudh at anirudhsbh at gmail.com wrote:
>
> > Somehow, on
> > Wikipedia, people tend to treat other users even worse, as if they never
> > profess any kind of feelings like humans do. I am guilty of this, most of us
> > are.
>
> And do we accept this as a given? Do we excuse it by saying, "that's the way
> things are & always will be". And, as someone said, "that's the nature of a
> mailing list". Or, do we see it for the primitive, dehumanizing behavior
> that it is - and do something about it?

Photos on user pages? If you know what someone looks like, they seem
more like a real person and less like some bits in a database.
Obviously, some people would not want their picture on their user
page, but for those that do, it might help. And improving relations
between those might help improve relations with the others too.