Keith Old wrote:
We should be encouraging users to participate in the
process not
discouraging them with artificial limits. It seems that many people who
don't participate in the process are the most vocal about its supposed
deficiencies. It's a bit like complaining about the quality of the
politicians that are running the country while you don't vote.
I used to participate, as part of doing new pages patrol, but between
the socks and the ignorant, the whole thing was so unpleasant and
inefficient that I moved on to other WP activities. It's kind of a
shame, because I've read perhaps 10% of all of en's articles, and
edited on some 15K of them, so I'm in a pretty good position to know
what fits, what doesn't, and what's redundant - but it's pointless
to participate in a process where those who know nothing of a subject
area can outvote the people who actually know something. WP only
works because 99% of the time the ignorant are willing to defer to
the knowledgeable; but VfD process works in the opposite way -
the knowledgeable are made to do extra work to overcome the
objections of the ignorant.
Stan