[WikiEN-l] The userbox fad

Wed Jan 4 22:01:11 UTC 2006

Tony Sidaway wrote:

>On 1/3/06, SCZenz <sczenz at gmail.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>Yes, we can certainly illegalize any userboxes we like.  The question is,
>>are the productive users we're going to lose (and there are some) if we
>>crack down on userboxes worth it?  And who should decide?
>>    
>>
>We may lose them, but they'll be welcome on livejournal and myspace. 
>I cannot imagine losing any serious contributor just because we say
>"no, we don't allow people to create userboxes that place them into
>categories by point of view--it promotes factionalism and has in the
>past resulted in serious attempts to subvert consensus."
>
When a person wants a particular POV to prevail it should make it easier 
to shop for votes.  Targeted <s>spam</s> advertising is always more cost 
effective than sending the ad to everybody.

Ec