On 19/12/2007, luke brandt shojokid@gmail.com wrote:
In the interest of transparency alone, would you care to comment on this:
It sounds more like the interests of querulousness that doesn't know when to quit it, but anyway.
...anyone who does come forward will be immediately struck from Jimbo's "trustworthy" list, which means that he or she will not be invited to join the "really internal" list that Sue has already proposed creating; this list would contain only "really trustworthy" people and formally require nondisclosure of its participants.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coefficient_of_Inefficiency - inner circles always grow larger as more groups want in, and thereby become useless. So a new inner circle has to form inside the previous inner circle. This in fact describes the last several hundred years of English government.
from http://nonbovine-ruminations.blogspot.com/2007/12/kicked-out-of-wikicult.htm...
Assume bad faith, and extrapolate from it!
- d.