On 3/22/07, Seth Finkelstein sethf@sethf.com wrote:
Can I use this thread to ask a question as a "worked example"?*Procedurally*, what was the way in which "nofollow" was added to external links? My impression was that Wales just said to do it, and it was done, even though there was no "community consensus". Now, I'm not saying it was the wrong thing to do. But from an outsider's perspective, it was pretty much an instance of "He's the decider".
Was there really no "community consensus"? I seem to recall general approval of the change. But "procedurally", as you put it, that may not be the same thing: approving of the change, as opposed to building consensus prior to a change and making the change on that basis.
What are you really getting at here? What point is your worked example trying to illustrate? That Jimbo occasionally makes decisions without explicitly checking for consensus is not in dispute. Whether this is harmful, and on what level, is a more interesting question...
Steve