On 6/25/07, Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote:
The issue of editors who don't have a clue about
the topic can be a
problem, but one which is distinct from having no clue about the
project. The risk here is for a project to so protect its way of doing
things that it becomes authoritarian. While we cannot accept every
piece of idiocy that is added to an article, we still need to make room
for new ideas, and, even more importantly, newcomers need to feel
welcome and a part of the decision making process.
This is much in accordance with what I am inadequately expressing. A
couple of times here people have used "assume good faith" not in cause
of civility, but in what amounts to making statements about human
nature. In that wise we cannot afford it; a more realistic level of
pessimism is called for.