[Foundation-l] On curiosity, cats and scapegoats

[David Gerard]

On 9 September 2011 12:44, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia-inc.com> wrote:

> If you don't like the feature, then don't use it.


This statement implies it will not affect the encyclopedia's contents
in any way at all - that the implementation will be provably free of
side-effects.

Are you guaranteeing this? If so, then based on what?

(This attitude of "we've done something potentially severely
problematic, now love it or leave it" is severely problematic in
itself, and this message is a seriously bad move in WMF interaction
with the community concerning the feature. WMF has power, Milos
doesn't; if he says something appalling it has no consequences, if a
board member says something appalling it has *considerable*
consequences.)


- d.