Those who contribute often and really care do form a
kind of a
group -- at the very least. I never really understood the total
aversion against an administrating body (especially one that is
based on meritocracy).
It's odd that 24 brings up this point frequently--that there is
no "system of governance" as he puts it. But there is--his name
is Jimbo. This is a very effective form of governance called
"monarchy". Jimbo owns the box, and what he says goes. The
balance to that is the open content license; if a bunch of us
really hate what he's doing, we can take all of the content to
another site and do it ourselves--but we're not likely to, because
Jimbo knows what he's doing. That also makes me inclined to be
less tolerant of destructive kooks, because in the end, there's
nothing preventing Mr.24 from forking the project off onto his
own site and getting all his green buddies to edit it--and the
marketplace will decide which site is more useful.
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