On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, John Lee wrote:
You can argue that the meta stuff we do is essential to the encyclopaedia in the long run. But honestly, it doesn't matter to me whether we merge [[WP:V]] with [[WP:ATT]] or we delete some stupid RfC about a departed user, because I'll still be working on the encyclopaedia even if these things happen. And so will many others.
It should matter to you. Becuase although it may not affect what you and "many others" do, it will affect what many more do. Having rules that make it hard for people to work on the encyclopedia can have drastic, long term, effects.