On Apr 21, 2008, at 11:35 AM, David Gerard wrote:
On 21/04/2008, Nathan nawrich@gmail.com wrote:
Actually, I should revise - practically everyone, including Arbs and a couple of Board members, feel that this change should be made to policy. I must be missing something I guess.
Yes - BLPs are special.
Though, it should be noted, the policy as currently proposed is a terrible idea. Nothing about AfD has ever demonstrated a skill at not running off half-cocked and engaging in vicious overkill. A blank check of this nature might be appropriate in some cases, but for a process as fundamentally sociopathic as AfD it is a terrible idea.
If I recall correctly, the original version of the change that was floated around limited this to cases where the subject has requested deletion. This seems to me a much, much more reasonable standard that is far less likely to lead to insane collateral damage.
-Phil