On 1/14/08, Steve Summit scs@eskimo.com wrote:
Yes, I'd say you're being unduly pessimistic. Rollback was a trivial, unimportant change that a few people wanted. Flagged revisions is an important, beneficial change that everybody wants. There *is* a difference (I hope).
Maybe. Groups of people tend to be highly risk averse. It's to me unproven that decision making processes based on large groups are capable of large scale innovation. This is the one thing that I find disconcerting about the rollback episode: if we need 80%+ of support for everything, how can we ever hope to make changes to the fundamentals, like getting rid of wiki syntax in favor of rich text editing, or implementing a better discussion system?
Sometimes, some people _will_ be unhappy, and sometimes you _will_ have to allow yourself to make a mistake, if you want to be able to also improve.