[WikiEN-l] userbox : insanity ?

Fri Jan 13 15:43:22 UTC 2006

You can say it a thousand times, but when diligent contributors acting in
good faith, are driven off by a political machine with an agenda of its
own, nullifies the premise.  It not only deters the goal of writing an
encyclopedia, it risks the issues of validity and censorship.

nobs

On 1/12/06, John Lee <johnleemk at gawab.com> wrote:
>
> Peter Mackay wrote:
>
> > <snip>
> >
> >
> >Don't think that this place is subject to the same sort of standards you
> >expect in a court of law or even the due process of a government body.
> It's
> >just a website, and the people running the show are all busy doing other
> >stuff and while they are happy to assume the rank and power of their
> >position, their top priority isn't listening to you point out their
> >shortcomings, it's getting an encyclopaedia built.
> >
> >Accept that from your point of view the system is crooked and rigged and
> get
> >on with it. Complaining about it only gets everyone offside.
> >
> >As I discovered.
> >
> >Peter (Skyring)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> I couldn't have put it better. [[WP:NOT]] a social experiment - it's an
> encyclopedia. For some people, this is too much to accept, but the rest
> of us who are here to write an encyclopedia couldn't care less.
>
> John Lee
> ([[User:Johnleemk]])
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