On 21/08/06, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
But there are certainly a lot of policies which do get
crufted... but
suggesting we nuke them ignores one of the primary causes of the
crufting: They get crufted because there either isn't anyone with an
interest in stopping it, or some malfunction in our community is
allowing the one-rule-per-mistake-made crowd to have editorial control
of the page.
There are some truly accomplished policy edit warriors.
Of course, they're failing to consider that being right is not enough
- you need to be right and *convincing*.
Simply nuking the pages from orbit would not solve
this.... and it
would quickly drive the folks who've worked so carefully on our more
balanced non-crufted policies totally insane as new users decide they
can (ab)use that policy to rewrite our policies in their own image.
Of course. But there's one hell of a lot of bathwater out there.
- d.