It would be ludicrously OK totalitarian to suggest that people who agree or disagree with each other shouldn t talk Equally obvious I d have thought is the fact that that was not the gist of my post I am disappointed that you have chosen to represent it that way It simply referred the OP who exhibits a great fondness for directing other editors attention to WP THISTHATANDTHEOTHER to a core concern of the WP CANVASS guideline which is that the practice of recruiting people to a discussion in order to add weight to an opinion you are arguing there when your criterion for selection is that the recruit shares your opinion is regarded as inappropriate Thank you for clarifying that the co founder of WP no less does not regard it as so It s good to learn that WP CANVASS is trumped by the infinitely more precious principle of free speech and that it s yet another strand of WP red tape we can safely ignore