[WikiEN-l] Something new under the sun

[Chris Howie]

(Fixing top post.)

On Jan 20, 2008 1:45 PM, David Goodman <dgoodmanny at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 19, 2008 7:40 PM, Chris Howie <cdhowie at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Volunteers will spend their time how they choose, not how we dictate.
> >
> > (I'm not making a judgment either way about this user's behavior, but
> > I've seen the "they're wasting their time on X when they could be
> > doing Y" argument enough that it makes me want to vomit.)
>
> Games in userspace are a perversion of the purpose of WP. If its still there
> much longer, I expect  to find it at MfD. There's self expression within our
> context, which is good, and there's general use as a personal website, and
> that's something different--even for out most active contributors.
> Of course spending  their time on X isnt a good argument, because they'd
> still be playing games; but it just wouldnt be on WP.

I did say that I'm not condoning the behavior here, right?  My point
is that if you take away the ability to do X, volunteers won't
magically rush to do Y.

-- 
Chris Howie
http://www.chrishowie.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Crazycomputers