Rob, as someone coming into this from the outside and seeing the entire thing at once... you're coming across very angry and aggressive about this with no real explanation why.
There were design and architectural decisions -- like this one -- that were made when the admin staff were the user base or at least the majority thereof. I cannot see that this invalidates those decisions, but if the subsequent growth of the userbase does invalidate them for some reason that raises two points:
One, we already have a mechanism in place for changing established ways of doing things on the wiki.
Two, if we need to get new consensus on decisions made before the current userbase were users we're going to a) need to do a lot of "renewing" decisions right away, and b) be doing this on a regular basis. It seems like a bad precedent to set -- I feel like it's going to lead to running referendums every few years as the userbase turns over.
There were design and architectural decisions -- like this one -- that were made when the admin staff were the user base or at least the majority thereof. I cannot see that this invalidates those decisions, but if the subsequent growth of the userbase does invalidate them for some reason that raises two points:
One, we already have a mechanism in place for changing established ways of doing things on the wiki.
Two, if we need to get new consensus on decisions made before the current userbase were users we're going to a) need to do a lot of "renewing" decisions right away, and b) be doing this on a regular basis. It seems like a bad precedent to set -- I feel like it's going to lead to running referendums every few years as the userbase turns over.
-- Bob
I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been
called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold....
I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been
called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold....