Ray Saintonge wrote:
It's obvious that Jimbo has thrown out this idea
for discussion, and not
as some kind of policy statemt. Yet it would not surprise me if six
months hence one of our random morons cited his comments as evidence
that Jimbo was advocating rigid proof of credentials for any contributor.
Yes. It's just an idea which I hoped would lead to interesting
discussion, which it has. :-)
So far (and I'm still not finished reading the thread), I am finding
Angela's objection compelling, i.e. that this would make us look a lot
less credentialed than we actually are, because most people won't bother
with the dreary process of proving credentials.
I still think there's something we can do in this area. But we'll have
to mull it over some more.
--Jimbo