jayjg wrote:
I've also
trimmed the parts of your post here that seemed inflammatory
to me. If you are trying to decrease the hysteria, you might consider
doing something similar when replying more in this thread.
I was more marveling at it than trying to decrease it. But if you'd
like to try to decrease it, feel free.
Sure. Let me begin by asking you to do what you can to decrease it.
Would you please do that?
Since you were
just trying to have a discussion and apparently aren't
advocating anything, are you done now? It seems like there has been
plenty of discussion on this topic, and if you aren't enjoying it,
perhaps letting it go until people are less worked up would be better.
Why would you think I wasn't enjoying it? The personal attacks,
insults, and hysterical rhetoric that suddenly appeared in the
discussion took me a bit by surprise, but they provide an amusement of
sorts.
Ok. If you find disruption fun, that's great. If you are looking to have
more discussions just for fun that may lead to similar
disruption, would you please create a separate list for it? I'm sure you
will find plenty of willing participants.
I took several hours to catch up on this discussion because I think the
topic is important to Wikipedia's future, and both the volume and tone
made my experience much worse than it needed to be. That you seem
cavalier about contributing to that is very frustrating to me. I would
rather have spent the time pruning CAT:CSD.
Thanks,
William