SlimVirgin wrote:
It's not just the most controversial this applies
to. It's any
article, project page, or section thereof that anyone's watching
closely. One problem we had after we'd written the final draft of ATT
as a summary of V and NOR is that some people believed the meaning of
a few crucial sentences had been changed. They hadn't -- they had just
been written differently -- but the change in writing led some people
to feel sure there must have been a change in meaning too, so they
opposed the proposal. This happens a lot with material that people
care about. They guard it fiercely, even if that means preserving bad
grammar, no flow, and words used incorrectly.
Policy pages are quite another matter. Changes of a single word in a
law or policy can have a profound effect because it is very rare when
two words will have identical connotations.
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