Fred Bauder wrote:
There is all this authority behind Jimbo. There are a couple of problems: there is a drive-by aspect to it, it's Jimbo and you feel you should defer; the other problem is much more serious, by doing this Jimbo doesn't have the experience of being an ordinary editor that people feel they can ignore, of vainly citing policy and being told, forcefully, with the threat of a block, that he's just "trolling".
Actually, Jimbo's authority fairly often translates into the OPPOSITE of people deferring -- as this particulat instance illustrates. If someone other than Jimbo had made this particular edit, no one would have considered it significant enough to be discussing on wikien-l. No one sees much point in rebelling against just another commoner, but if the king does something you don't like, you're more likely to call for revolution.
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