The iron law of gaps...
On Tue, Aug 15, 2023 at 5:44 PM The Cunctator <cunctator(a)gmail.com> wrote:
IMHO: The amount of jargon and legalistic booby traps
to navigate now to
become an admin is gargantuan, and there isn't a strong investment in a
development ladder.
Yes. More generally, a shift towards a Nupedia model (elaborate seven-step
processes, focus on quality, focus on knowing lots of precedent and not
making mistakes, spending more time justifying actions than making them) is
making sweeping, mopping, and bureaucracy generally more work, less fun,
and more exclusionary.
Perhaps asking everyone to adopt someone new, or sticking "provisional"
tags on a family of palette-swap roles that are Really Truly NBD
<Wikipedia:Pencils_are_no_big_deal> We Mean It This Time, would help stave
off the iron law in a repeatable
<https://longnow.org/ideas/long-term-building-in-japan/> way//
SJ