On Jan 19, 2008 9:52 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
Firstly, there's the issue of inflamatory userboxes. It appears that userboxes supporting American troops in Iraq are acceptable, but
userboxes
supporting the Iraqi insurgensy aren't. Userboxes supporting the killing
of
Iraqi insurgents are acceptable, but ones that support the killing of American troops aren't. Surely both the "support" ones should be
acceptable,
whilst the ones that support killing should be delete. Then there's the
ones
that advocate peodophilia. Users who have these often argue that we
accept
homosexual userboxes, which is just a stupid argument, but they don't
seem
to be able accept that.
The answer is, of course, to ban all such userboxes and be done with it. Trying to decide what it is and isn't acceptable to express support for is just asking for trouble.
Yes, he simplest solution would be to ban all boxes not related to Wikipedia or your activity on wiki (such as babel boxes). Though it's pretty easy to tell what's divisive and what isn't (which, I think, is a reason to speedy delete).
--John Reaves