On 12/18/06, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/18/06, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
It doesn't seem to work like that these days - the change is made, then thye see who complains.
Which is fine. That's the point of a wiki - you can make changes and if other people don't like them, they can undo them.
That undermines the credibility of our policies, though. It means that they're pretty much just ephemeral, reflecting the mood of the latest contributor, rather than anything more substantial than that.
We have seen this bite people; I've seen policies quoted by people who'd happened to see a version which was then pushed back and reverted, for example.
This is normally not that bad a problem, but people who tend to rules lawyer instead of acting in the spirit of cooperation can cause glitches.