On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 06:31, Jimmy Wales wrote:
The Cunctator wrote:
What I'm saying is that most changes to
policy don't need to be
discussed.
Oh, but this can't be right. If policy isn't discussed, and people
don't read the policy pages regularly (and they don't), then the
policy pages don't have a strong impact on existing members. The
policy pages are there mostly to orient newcomers, and to serve as a
"reference" for the rest of us to remember what some consensus was in
the past.
Sorry. I should have said: "most changes to policy *pages* don't need to
be discussed *before they are made* (but if they indicate a meaningful
change to policy, they definitely need to be brought to the attention of
as many people as possible)."
I hope that makes it more clear.
Ed Poor has done a better job of expressing what I'm trying to express.
Maybe it's because he's less truculent.