On 3/8/07, William Pietri william@scissor.com wrote:
I agree with this completely. I'd add that I think benevolent dictatorships generally work in inverse proportion to the amount the dictator has to intervene. So I'd rather we take any ex-cathedra intervention as an opportunity to find out how the community can handle things next time on its own.
You must mean there needs to be some other form of public expression other than "hang him!"
I agree, and if Jimbo wasn't in the sticks he might have been more clear on what was going on, and his calls for a "calm, loving" approach might not have been ignored.
-Stevertigo