Question why with a number of Foundation people on
this list havent these
photos just been deleted as an "office action", I know its big stick action
but at least it resolves the immediate issue that these should have been
deleted.
This is a matter of institutional politics in Commons.
As you say, an office action would be an intervention of the
Foundation on administrative turf, a recourse that the Foundation
understandably wish to reserve for the most serious of events to avoid
wearing its authority. Because of this, we have to rely on the
administrative corps, which does not function as a coherant
institution, but as the sum of contributions of the random
administrators who decide to intervene on such or such event. This
occasionally leaves a great deal of influence in the hands of people
who lack the insight to see the finality of things rather than stop at
matters of pure form, and occasionally of people who are too
intellectually lazy to completely understand even the forms.
Our system works well for usual cases where simple matters can be
railroaded through mediocre people. It has every chance of failing in
exceptional circumstances, when some actual understanding is required.
It is not that there is no intelligent person in Commons, but that
intelligence can hardly be expressed in the collective voice that
emerges through our system.
-- Rama