On 10/9/08, Philip Sandifer <snowspinner(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Oh, did we finally do away with an innocuous
innovation that actually
measurably and demonstrably increased the number of free images we
have in favor of short-term concerns about how "pretty" articles look?
Some day I hope we can finally develop policies that are actually a
complete impediment to the development of a free content resource
instead of these minor speedbumps we usually muster.
Well, it's one thing to say "don't over-use 'em" but it soon becomes
a
race to see who can first run a thinly disguised bot to remove them
all, just like the fucking date links.
—C.W.