On 9/13/06, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Objections which are answered by the nominator but which the objectors
can't be found to cross off lead to the nomination failing, for
example. Go read WT:FAC, there's an example listed. The nominator in
that case was told "gee, go away and try harder."
My objection is to a process which the regulars can straight-facedly
say to someone who just got an FA and is objecting to the personalised
shittiness of the process, "go away and learn to write properly" and
have this tolerated as a response. Does that encourage the content
creators to actually bother, or to say "screw you guys, I'm going
home"?
I guess I would be hesitant to judge the overall FAC process based on the
interaction between Francesco and FAC regulars. Rare are FACs that get so
heated (I recall the GNAA and Bulbasaur FACs, and that's it). In this case,
it seems both sides (I include myself in this) got defensive when they
perceived that their opinions were under attack (for Francesco, that his
writing was poor, and for Tony/Sandy/Me, that the standards we've been
applying to FACs for months are faulty). In the end (which occurred after
Francesco's initial complaints on WT:FAC), I think pretty much everyone
agreed that the article was at least somewhat better than it was when the
nomination started. And everyone was much more calm, that's for sure.
As for people disappearing and not striking their objections, yes, that
happens, but in my experience Raul usually ignores these after several days
if the nominator makes a note under the objection saying that he/she has
addressed the objection. Of course, sometimes it doesn't work out that way,
especially for nominations receiving few comments.
Nathaniel