On Nov 12, 2006, at 6:01 PM, Brian Salter-Duke wrote:
Killing with a stick is top-down admin activity that prevents others from actually knowing what it was that was killed. I would prefer killing by consensus after the community has at least had an opportunity to see it. How much good stuff is going down the gurgler because of speedy deletion by admins who know nothing about what the article was about and that it needed help and TLC not killing?
The rush of crap in many areas (fanfic, corporate vanity, garage bands, and other such major problems ) far outstrips the capacity for AfD. None of these things survive AfD, and ought never even go there. Speedying off of AfD is a way of saying "Please do not clog AfD with this, just kill it." We don't have time to have high-quality debate about everything. In fact, we don't even have time to have high- quality debate about everything we're trying to have high-quality debate about.
-Phil