On 13 April 2010 23:06, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
But the opposite approach is as bad or worse: If
every issue must be
argued anew when someone brings it up then the ultimate outcome is
that by sheer pigheaded persistence you will eventually get your way
once everyone saner has tired or repeating the same argument, — or
even ignoring a single persistence force — that we'll always
eventually conduct things according to the initial impressions of a
typical uninformed person (because, again, the informed people will
drop out).
What you have described is what many describe as the problem with
editing Wikipedia.
(It tends to correct itself after a few years, or two generations of users.)
- d.