On Wed, 2 Feb 2011, wiki wrote:
The notion that what new editors really value is the ability to participate in policy discussions, and that any move away from that is "dangerous" is just more nonsense of the libertine variety. We are building an encyclopedia
- remember that? The rest is just pragmatic sausage making.
Well, I can tell you I left because of a policy decision (well, there were a whole bunch of things but the policy decision was one of the worst.)