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

[George Herbert]

On 9/13/07, Wily D <wilydoppelganger at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/13/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.
> >
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> Would people really be happier if there was a picture of me on my
> userpage?  I'd be happy to add one if this is some sort of big deal.
>
> WilyD

Don't do it if you vandal-fight to any serious degree.  I've got one
up and had to semi-protect my talk page, though that may be the
particular set of fake-rap-artist-4chan-prank nuts I've managed to
provoke over the last couple of weeks.

Otherwise, I encourage it, personally.


-- 
-george william herbert
george.herbert at gmail.com