doc wrote:
Stephen Bain wrote:
Just like the problem of unsourced content, it's a problem of people, not of policies.
However, being realistic, our community is too large and impersonal for us to be in the business of reforming people - all we can do is change policies. But I get yelled at every time I suggest that.
That's perfectly understandable when it appears that you are determined to change the way that _others_ do things. The size of the community has nothing to do with it. It's the idea of setting out to reform people that is wrong, even in a much smaller community. The very idea of reforming people, whether through personal command in a small community or elaborate policies in a large one is what makes that community impersonal.
Policy changes would go more easily if proposers began paying attention to the collateral effects of those proposals.
Ec