[WikiEN-l] Re: Try out the rating scheme

[Poor, Edmund W]

 Yes, of course that is the problem. There are several developers who 
> could enable the feature, but all of them are now in fear 
> that something 
> will go Horribly Wrong(tm), so each individual one of them 
> doesn't want to 
> be held responsible in the end, so they don't do it and hope that 
> someone else will do it and take the blame instead.
> 
> Which is kind of weird, because Brion and Tim have done much more 
> "dangerous" things in the past, and every once in a while it 
> does bring 
> the servers down, but they always fix it swiftly and it's 
> never a big deal.
> 
> This wouldn't be any different, had it not been for the initial 
> FUD-laden discussion, which now leaves the developers fearful 
> of social 
> repercussions.
> 
> Timwi

If one developer will turn it on, while half a dozen other articles
eyeball the system for problems, the experiment should be safe enough.

No one will blame you. Tell you what, let ME take the blame. 

Uncle Ed