On 30/12/06, xaosflux <xaosflux(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Ok, I retract that, was a little overstated. Although
I've seen way to many
items brought to DRV in the past just to have another go at them (generally
in the case of xfd's ended in Keep).
Yeah. The trouble with DRV is it has regulars, who end up forming a
virtual committee. Committees often fail to scale with editors and
articles. The overworked regulars (who are bothering with this because
they care) see lots of stupid and get understandably terse with it.
They then tweak process to make the process page easier for themselves
- formalised systems, local jargon and so forth. This unintentionally
excludes outsiders from the pages. Many express open suspicion of
outsiders, who are perceived as not knowing how the process works.
Regulars lose sight of the big picture and begin to conflate the
process with the project and will defend the process at the expense of
arguable damage to the project.
I'm not sure of an easy approach to solving this.
- d.