[WikiEN-l] Re: me and my three reverts

Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales jwales at wikia.com
Thu Feb 3 13:21:04 UTC 2005


Pete/Pcb21 wrote:
> >Yes, and there are some good reasons to interpret it fairly literally,
> >while at the same time leaving a little breathing room for common
> >sense recognition that randomly changing one irrelevant word in a
> >different part of the article is still a revert.
> 
> The problem with interpretations and hundreds of admins is that it only 
> needs one admin with a "hardline" attitude for the user to be blocked 
> (however temporarily). Under the current model, the will of the mass of 
> the community is irrelevant, it is the outlying opinions that have most 
> weight.

Yes, this is a tough one.

--Jimbo



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