[Foundation-l] Article Feedback Tool 5 testing deployment

Sat Dec 24 08:55:38 UTC 2011

On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Liam Wyatt <liamwyatt at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 24/12/2011, at 17:38, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonavaro at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I hope you will forgive me for being a bit terse and blunt. It is the
> season
>> for unpalatable truths, and not just in Scotland. To an impartial observer
>> this whole exercise has all the earmarks of trying to dig up Nupedia from
>> the grave, give it the "kiss of life" and do all sorts of hocus pocus and
> arm
>> waving and say "It is alive! It is alive!"
>>
>> ... And then see it just fall on its face like the corpse it is.
>>
>> Cue even more bubbling vials with smoke and sparks. "Let's try again!
>> This time it will work!"
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>> Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]]
>>
>
> Jussie-Ville -  terse or blunt is fine IF it is accompanied by a reasoned
> argument and preferably also a proposed alternative. I find your posts on
> this thread to be both full of hyperbolic metaphor as well as being
> unclear. As such I don't think they are helping your argument, however
> strong you might hold your opinions on the topic.

I don't really get the "unclear" bit. How more clear could I be than say
"impartial observer". How do you ever think you are going to get an
intelligent reader to swallow that as "[...] however strong you might
hold your opinions on the topic. "

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Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]]