User talk:Troll Bridge on the River Kwai

Hi, I've been stalking checking out your edits. Got a few different comments for ya.

First off, thank you for the respect you show to reference my text. I don't claim any special authority to make these coinages; they are just observations from the porch, so to speak.

That said, I think you and I are going down the wrong road here. I don't know the rules on Anarchopedia -- not sure if there are any rules -- but it's probably bad form for me to sign comments or whatever in article mainspace. I got off track when you quoted my text from my Wikipedia Talk page -- I claim all responsibility. Unless you see a reason to do otherwise, I'd rather delete all "sigs" from mainspace. I cop to my edits, but don't need to take credit for them.

Another thing that threw me off track is that our little Charter Caucus project pretty much ignores all such rules; by definition, all its subpages are pretty much discussion pages, and I encourage people to sign their edits.

You might want to check en: c2: ThreadMode. I don't see any problem with signing on "article pages", provided that anyone is free to refactor the information so as to maximize its usefulness to the reader - the page history being enough to establish attribution. If you have a problem with that, by all means write in the talk namespace instead. This is just a standard convention, of course.

Which brings us to your involvement in the Caucus. Naturally, we welcome all members with an interest, and as you're already a logged-in member, nothing to say on that score. But we'd appreciate it if you put your handle on Charter/Members -- if for some reason the word "members" makes you queasy, there's also a Guest list.

Sorry, but I really have to disagree here. For the sake of the most credible critics of online groupthink, we will have to stay out of any membership or "community".

Interesting stuff on ethics. We can use more stuff like that.

Thank You! for your participation. [[User:Xiong|— Xiong熊talk]] 01:08, 25 Apr 2005 (CDT)

Make a choice. You can insist that every contributor here must become a member of some sort of social group or be ignored. If you do that, we will respect your privacy - I will make no further contribution here.

If you want our help, then you will have to give due process and consideration to the perspectives of anon editors and these who choose not to sign up as "caucus members" - this is nothing more than a simple defense against mindless "Wikipedianism".