User:The Cunctator: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 02:58, 30 November 2001

Good idea: test the PHP script

Bad idea: balkanize discussion.

One hopes enlightenment will come before total darkness falls.

Good idea: Have policy pages as part of Wikipedia.

Bad idea: Fear-based, military-analogy policies: "it's possible that the average newbie in this generation of contributors would be of the way-too-clueless variety, and that a significant minority would be downright malicious..." "It could be a major disaster." Save the fear-mongering for the federal government with respect to acts of terrorism, not a openly editable website. We don't need the Wikipedia equivalent of the USA PATRIOT Act. LMS needs to stop watching so much CNN. (Seriously, though, if you're in charge of a collaborative, volunteer project, and you start getting a bunker mentality, a red flag should be going up.)

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 Bad idea: Fear-based, military-analogy policies: "it's possible that the average newbie in this generation of contributors would be of the way-too-clueless variety, and that a significant minority would be downright malicious..." "It could be a major disaster." Save the fear-mongering for the federal government with respect to acts of terrorism, not a openly editable website. We don't need the Wikipedia equivalent of the [http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/USA_PATRIOT_Act USA PATRIOT Act]. LMS needs to stop watching so much CNN. (Seriously, though, if you're in charge of a collaborative, volunteer project, and you start getting a bunker mentality, a red flag should be going up.)
-:''Really, really'' bad idea, nay, a breathtakingly idiotic idea: constantly shooting yourself in the foot by constantly using inflammatory language, such as "fear-based," above, instead of trying to engage people with whom you disagree in polite, reasoned dialogue.  The Wikipedia Militia notion isn't ''fear-based.''  If you think it is, you just don't get it.  I'm not engaging in ''fear-mongering.''  I'm trying, in what was '''intended to be''' a lighthearted way (until you came along and spun it in a way that made me look as bad as possible), to get people turned on to the idea of ''doing a whole lot of work'' whenever the time comes to make sure that a huge crop of misguided new people do not ruin Wikipedia--as they could.  Most people who arrive "get it."  There is always a minority who don't, and they need teaching and dissuading from doing really damaging edits.
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