On 21/08/06, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
But there are certainly a lot of policies which do get crufted... but suggesting we nuke them ignores one of the primary causes of the crufting: They get crufted because there either isn't anyone with an interest in stopping it, or some malfunction in our community is allowing the one-rule-per-mistake-made crowd to have editorial control of the page.
There are some truly accomplished policy edit warriors.
Of course, they're failing to consider that being right is not enough - you need to be right and *convincing*.
Simply nuking the pages from orbit would not solve this.... and it would quickly drive the folks who've worked so carefully on our more balanced non-crufted policies totally insane as new users decide they can (ab)use that policy to rewrite our policies in their own image.
Of course. But there's one hell of a lot of bathwater out there.
- d.