On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Ken Arromdee <arromdee(a)rahul.net> wrote:
On Wed, 2 Feb 2011, wiki wrote:
The notion that what new editors really value is
the ability to participate
in policy discussions, and that any move away from that is "dangerous" is
just more nonsense of the libertine variety. We are building an encyclopedia
- remember that? The rest is just pragmatic sausage making.
Well, I can tell you I left because of a policy decision (well, there were a
whole bunch of things but the policy decision was one of the worst.)
...And a policy discussion which was driven by a small, vocal, and
policy-active minority, who drove a solution upstream against a
consensus gap.
The long term damage that incident did has been consistently shoveled
under the rug.
--
-george william herbert
george.herbert(a)gmail.com