On 02/02/2008, Philip Sandifer snowspinner@gmail.com wrote:
On Feb 1, 2008, at 6:39 PM, Steven Walling wrote:
Get over it. Nobility has been being used as (effective) policy for many months, if not years.
It's been used. I've yet to see any evidence of its effectiveness, and particularly no evidence that it is meaningfully superior to a general policy of deleting based on qualitative rather than quantitative judgments.
That's not what he means by effective. He means it is, in effect, policy. Not that the policy is effective.