[WikiEN-l] Re: Turn off AfD

Sat Dec 10 02:52:52 UTC 2005

David Gerard wrote:

>Travis Mason-Bushman wrote to Tony Sidaway:
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>>Coming from someone who's consistently opposed good faith efforts to make it
>>easier for admins to get rid of crap wiki pages, and, in fact, is at this
>>very moment proposing to not allow crap-but-not-speedy-crap wiki pages to be
>>deleted at all for a month, I find that statement quite amusing.
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>Keith Old wrote to The Cunctator:
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>>People should give serious thought to the consequences of such actions
>>before they post. All that would happen is that we would end up with one
>>hell of a mess.
>>In any case, those people who are so concerned about AfD should come up with
>>a serious proposal that would work better. As yet, I have not seen such a
>>proposal.
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>I don't doubt Keith or Travis's good faith at all, but I do think the
>above is a good example of the attitude of assumption of bad faith by
>outsiders the AFD process currently seems to foster - and particularly
>the hostile reaction to most suggestions of change.
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Actually, they aren't assumptions of bad faith so much as they're 
reflections of an opinion that "turn off AfD" isn't a proposal that can 
be taken seriously. Other people obviously do take it seriously, and the 
gap between these two positions is difficult to bridge.

--Michael Snow