Perhaps because on Commons village pump, non-regulars, interacting
politely and civilly, are harassed, abused and also blocked without cause.
Perhaps because the discussion system at Commons is broken, and
participation there is oftentimes a complete waste of time.
BRUENTRUP
On 12/13/14, Fæ <fae...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I cannot see the point of raising questions about how Commons works here
> rather than on Commons.
>
> All of these points have been raised before and discussed on the village
> pump.
>
> Other threads on this list were argued to be about multiple projects, this
> is not.
>
> Fae
> On 13 Dec 2014 16:06, "MZMcBride" <z...@mzmcbride.com> wrote:
>
>> Jane Darnell wrote:
>> >No, tagging is different. GerardM blogged about this with the example of
>> >"horse". You can "tag" a photo as being of a horse by putting it in the
>> >horse category, but in no time it will be filed under some subcategory of
>> >horse. There are relatively few images in the top "horse" category.
>>
>> This is one of the most baffling parts of Commons to me. Why is it a
>> problem to have images of horses in Category:Horse? You seem to be
>> describing a social problem ("it will be filed under some subcategory [by
>> a person]"), not a technical problem. If people are vandalizing files by
>> removing useful categories, we should tell them to stop immediately.
>>
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