[WikiEN-l] The userbox fad

Tue Jan 3 21:03:34 UTC 2006

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The user-box issue is the first time I've seen some of them act en masse.
My point was that I'm glad we've seen it over a relatively minor issue
(though I feel bad for the targets of it), because it might prompt
some action before it gets to the point where they're dictating
policy. Just because some of the user-box editors, if I can call them
that, make few edits to the encyclopedia doesn't mean none do, or even
that most don't, obviously.

Sarah
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And relationships are being formed right now in the group of new-ish users
that have been brought together over user boxes that will indeed result in
attempts to shout policies through. Not to be melodramatic but I really
think we're at a crossroads here.

The increase in usage has brought a lot of new users in, some of whom have
been active in forum-like sites where participation and acceptable ways of
communicating are much different.....