QUOTE(Elara @ Sun 28th January 2007, 3:13pm)
Well, sorry, but Jimbo's wrong on this one, and if people's only answer is to stick knives in Zoe for trying to do what she thought was right, then I'm done with WP.
I'm not sure there's any right or wrong involved, though. WP is starting to become famous for this sort of thing - its popularity has made it a huge target, and the fact is, operating a website that's as popular as that, but still allows vandalism to take place
at all, is going to involve making some ideological compromises. It isn't just "directed vandalism" (or whatever we're calling this), it's paid editing, BLP opt-outs, protection of minors against adult content, all sorts of things. The more popular WP gets, the more often those compromises will have to take place, and the more drama that's generated as a result of people not wanting to make them. (IMG:
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I'm not saying Zoe deserves to be pilloried for this, but neither did/does the NIU professor. And if Zoe's unwilling to make those kinds of compromises, or at least try to be gracious about it, she
will become a liability to them regardless of how well-intentioned she is.