G'day The Mangoe,
On 6/22/07, Thomas Dalton
<thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The main reasoning behind BOLD is the fact that
it's easy to undo any
mistakes. That holds for (most) administrative actions as well as
basic editing, so why wouldn't BOLD apply?
But the problem is that it isn't that easy. 3RR gives whoever makes
the first change an advantage: their opponent will get hit by the rule
first. Being BOLD in policy is a major cause of The Wrong Version,
because it's likely that disputes will get the text locked in the
changed version.
This shows a major misunderstanding of 3RR, BOLD, and The Wrong Version
(although you may have been ironic with that last one). I'm not,
however, surprised.
--
Mark Gallagher
"'Yes, sir,' said Jeeves in a low, cold voice, as if he had been bitten
in the leg by a personal friend."
- P G Wodehouse, /Carry On, Jeeves/