Redvers @ the Wikipedia wrote:
Five years ago, dmoz had the headlines for being a wonder of the internet. Now Wikipedia has them. Do we really need to follow their path so completely that we must repeat their mistakes?
We are a '''wiki''' after all. If people have an issue with the 20% downside that the 80% upside allows, there are other places to go. But they don't tend to remain dynamic for long.
That's an important lesson with broad application well beyond Wikipedia. Integrating the newcomers into the existing hierarchy is a problem for most organizations. Fresh ideas are often defeated by the shallow argument that we've always done it that way.
Ec