[WikiEN-l] MUD history dissolving into the waters of time

toddmallen toddmallen at gmail.com
Mon Jan 12 04:26:01 UTC 2009


On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 6:56 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/1/12  <WJhonson at aol.com>:
>
>> Well your "querulous and idiotic" is someone else's "attempt to ensure the
>> source is reliable".
>
>
> Well, not really. If they don't believe a given item can have reliable
> sources - the sort of rabid nutters who brag about deletion tallies on
> their user pages - then they just won't accept anything. I speak here
> from observation of the phenomenon.
>
>
> - d.
>
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There is a tremendous difference between "won't accept just anything"
and "won't accept anything". Pulling up a few blogs doesn't mean
you're done, and can say "I've got it sourced, these horrible people
just won't accept it!"

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