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Another retirement, this one over the amount of trivia here.
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Of all the things to retire over, this one is surely the silliest in my opinion. There's so much worse with Wikipedia than so-called "trivia". I suggest TravisTX gets over it.
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QUOTE(Alex @ Fri 22nd May 2009, 6:41am) *

Of all the things to retire over, this one is surely the silliest in my opinion. There's so much worse with Wikipedia than so-called "trivia". I suggest TravisTX gets over it.


Participation in Wikipedia = fun, useful, honorable, patriotic.

Retirement from Wikipedia = silly, unfortunate, dishonorable, disloyal.

Thank you, Alex. I think we've all got it now.
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QUOTE(thekohser @ Fri 22nd May 2009, 2:42pm) *

QUOTE(Alex @ Fri 22nd May 2009, 6:41am) *

Of all the things to retire over, this one is surely the silliest in my opinion. There's so much worse with Wikipedia than so-called "trivia". I suggest TravisTX gets over it.


Participation in Wikipedia = fun, useful, honorable, patriotic.

Retirement from Wikipedia = silly, unfortunate, dishonorable, disloyal.

Thank you, Alex. I think we've all got it now.

I actually agree with Alex on this one; I think you're misreading him. The way I see it what he's trying to say is:

Retirement from Wikipedia due to a culture of abuse and the unwillingness to recognize the real-life consequences of actions = reasonable

Retirement from Wikipedia because it has too many articles on Star Trek and too many gay editors = not reasonable
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QUOTE(Eva Destruction @ Fri 22nd May 2009, 2:58pm) *

QUOTE(thekohser @ Fri 22nd May 2009, 2:42pm) *

QUOTE(Alex @ Fri 22nd May 2009, 6:41am) *

Of all the things to retire over, this one is surely the silliest in my opinion. There's so much worse with Wikipedia than so-called "trivia". I suggest TravisTX gets over it.


Participation in Wikipedia = fun, useful, honorable, patriotic.

Retirement from Wikipedia = silly, unfortunate, dishonorable, disloyal.

Thank you, Alex. I think we've all got it now.

I actually agree with Alex on this one; I think you're misreading him. The way I see it what he's trying to say is:

Retirement from Wikipedia due to a culture of abuse and the unwillingness to recognize the real-life consequences of actions = reasonable

Retirement from Wikipedia because it has too many articles on Star Trek and too many gay editors = not reasonable


Eva has it right.
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QUOTE(Alex @ Fri 22nd May 2009, 9:59am) *

QUOTE(Eva Destruction @ Fri 22nd May 2009, 2:58pm) *

QUOTE(thekohser @ Fri 22nd May 2009, 2:42pm) *

QUOTE(Alex @ Fri 22nd May 2009, 6:41am) *

Of all the things to retire over, this one is surely the silliest in my opinion. There's so much worse with Wikipedia than so-called "trivia". I suggest TravisTX gets over it.


Participation in Wikipedia = fun, useful, honorable, patriotic.

Retirement from Wikipedia = silly, unfortunate, dishonorable, disloyal.

Thank you, Alex. I think we've all got it now.

I actually agree with Alex on this one; I think you're misreading him. The way I see it what he's trying to say is:

Retirement from Wikipedia due to a culture of abuse and the unwillingness to recognize the real-life consequences of actions = reasonable

Retirement from Wikipedia because it has too many articles on Star Trek and too many gay editors = not reasonable


Eva has it right.


I'm sorry, is "too many gay editors" what TravisTX said?
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QUOTE(thekohser @ Fri 22nd May 2009, 2:25pm) *
I'm sorry, is "too many gay editors" what TravisTX said?


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I also find that, of the active editors, an unusually large percentage identify as something other than heterosexual. While I don’t identify with those lifestyles, I have no particular enmity toward them either, so long as those lifestyles aren’t forcibly portrayed as mainstream.


Subtitled for the tone-impaired: The bold is said as though it is a problem, and the underlined is said as if such a thing is happening (and, of course, implicitly that it's not mainstream, which can be true or false depending on how broadly you define mainstream)

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