On 11/28/05, Matt Brown morven@gmail.com wrote:
On 11/28/05, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
Becuase eventaulism ment that we didn't have to fix the problem of people uploading such images right now. So the problem was allowed to build up.
I'm not sure that's eventualism, though - it's 'laziness' as in having too much else to do to get round to everything.
Eventualism allows you to deal with the problem latter.
and a lack of appreciation as to the scale of the problem.
I knew I assume others did
And a process for dealing with them having not been established.
In theory WP:CP would have been the process early on. As the sitution grew special measures became required.
All of this was, in retrospect, a mistake. But I'm not sure it can be chalked up to 'eventualism', rather than other causes.
-Matt
By the same token imitatism can't be shown to have any downsides either. The problem with eventualism is that in most cases I can show it supports both sides of the debate.
-- geni