[WikiEN-l] There are no pictures in Wikipedia any more

[Monahon, Peter B.]

> Earlier: "... I'm here for the dialog 
> with anyone who wants to read and 
> possibly respond.  I believe the list 
> belongs to all of us, altogether, 
> future readers, too.  Once the 2nd 
> person joins, it's a 50/50 
> proposition.  The third person 
> makes it a 33/33/33 proposition, 
> and so on...calling someone else's 
> contributions "obsessive" merely
> identifies ourselves as intolerant, 
> bored, or recalcitrant.  I value
> every member, especially the 
> provocative posts, the ones that 
> make me think, and make me 
> reconsider my point of view..."
   
> One response: "...This is a noble 
> sentiment...[but]...spend some 
> time on Usenet...unrestricted 
> dialog...a swamp..."

Apples and oranges.

This groups is moderated to delete spam, vandalism and extended
off-topic threads.  So, if someone is not a spammer, not a vandal, and
is on-topic, the moderators don't have to spend a moment dealing with
them - let their posts through.  Then it's up to us users to read, or to
scroll on.

I do not understand the complaints against posts that are not spam, not
vandalism, not off topic.  I scroll past many non-spam, non-vandalism,
on-topic threads because I'm not interested.  Why would I ask the
moderator to block the contributors to and readers  of those threads?