QUOTE(Deputy Cabal Ringleader @ Fri 4th December 2009, 11:31am)
Definitely interesting, but nothing I personally didn't
predict almost 4 years ago. (Btw, if there's an English translation of that, it would be nice to add it to the Uncyclopedia article as a "source"... (IMG:
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Not that anyone should especially respect my opinion, but organizing a voting bloc on a semi-private mailing list (or wherever) can't really be seen as unethical, at least not in any sort of real-world context. However, I can see why WP'ers would want to discourage it, and perhaps even sanction people who are caught doing it - like so many things on WP, it actually has little to do with the ethics of the organizers or even WP's image with the public. It has everything to do with maintaining the illusion of administrative integrity for casual/occasional editors (i.e., rubes).
They're fighting a losing battle, but if they don't at least try, they're finished - people will abandon WP in even greater numbers, and the Lockdown Phase will come much sooner than any of us predicted (and I'm already advancing my own predicted timetable to 2-3 years from now, from any original 5-6 years).