Lord Voldemort wrote:
On 6/20/06, The Cunctator <cunctator(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
[snip] It's
difficult to tell and Wales isn't particularly interested in doing honest
critical analyses of the effects of his policies.
[snip]
This is a complicated matter and neither the NYT,
nor Jimmy, nor BoingBoing
is helping matters by oversimplifying the debate.
Well, to be fair to Jimmy, it really isn't _his_ policy. By framing
the debate with this in mind, I think you too are oversimplifying. ;-)
It was a policy decided by community consensus.
And, I should add to this. I never ever heard of semi-protection until
the community consensus was overwhelming to have it implemented.
Someone pointed me to the discussion and page about it, and I thought:
wow, this is brilliant, I fully support it.
But, yes, it is absolutely not possible for me to claim credit for
semi-protection. It is a brilliant innovation that allows us to be more
open than before, when we only had the tool of protection. But it is
not my innovation, and I do not know who first thought of it.
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