Matthew Brown wrote:
a) How do you select these less than a dozen people? Will everyone - or even a good solid supermajority - agree with you?
I think most of them would be clear to most people. On most, I think a good solid supermajority would agree we'd be better off without them, but there's no realistic way to guage it.
b) If you ousted the dozen worst troublemakers on the project - by whoever's definition - you also lose a bunch of their friends and a bunch of other people who would be pissed off by such an action. How do you handle that? Do you just write it off as the costs of fixing the place?
Absolutely a worthwhile cost. Chances are, if they'd leave because we lost such cancers, they weren't really all that worth having around to begin with.
-Jeff