On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 16:19:01 -0800, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
Clearly an all-or-nothing toggle isn't going to satisfy anybody, much less everybody. So "implementing the will of the community", if it is to mean anything, must mean something *other* than turning a toggle off or leaving it on.
What do you suggest?
The technical compromises that have been batted around (adding nofollow for a certain amount of time after the link was added, etc.) seem the most ideal to me. Unfortunately, these all require coding. Until the developers devise a technical solution, the community is stuck with a yes/no option.
To clarify, I was the user who organized the vote on en. I apologize to Matthew for the lack of a prompt response; I was snowed under with work this week and had little time to devote to Wikipedia.
--Slowking Man