On 10/14/07, Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net wrote:
On 10/14/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Anyone can draft proposals - that's what the workshop page is for (and to keep idiots occupied somewhere relatively harmless, of course).
This is the kind of language that is destructive to the culture of this project.
Well, it's perfectly true. I can't speak for the present situation; I was an active clerk for maybe six months a year or two ago. However, back then, I saw a lot of crap going down by editors who were eventually heavily sanctioned or even banned. They probably weren't idiots in the literal sense of the word, but they expended a lot of energy in fighting a case where they were obviously in the wrong. I presume that as the project has grown, the idiocy has grown proportionately.
Johnleemk