Mark wrote:

Our current process seems to have two main ways of resolving contentious disputes:

• Whoever is most persistent wins, as eventually his opponent

goes away and he reverts to his preferred version without anyone noticing

• Whichever position is most popular wins, as it wins the vote

(even if it's grossly incorrect)

A third option is that someone constructs a form of words acceptable (or at least palatable) to both sides. A fourth is that one side or the other is convinced that they are incorrect (or potentially incorrect). I can't comment on relative frequency, but they do happen.

-Martin "MyRedDice" Harper