Milos Rancic wrote:
Note that I am not talking about some edit war, but
about a dominant
opinion of not so small number of communities. And those are just
dominant and generic excuses. A lot of others are well rationalized
excuses used by many communities and defined (or not) inside of the
policies. Sometimes the policy is a problem, but in much more cases
systematic policy interpretation is a problem.
A lot of communities will simply resent having a policy imposed upon
them when they feel they could not participate adequately in the
decision, even when a dispassionate look at the policy might produce
different results. If you then tell them that they are responding
irrationally the natural tendency is for them to dig in their heels.
I strongly agree with your last point. Systematic interpretation makes
the place look like a police state, and leaves no room for good-faith
innovation that does not fit in with the often monomanic police attitude
toward rules.
Ec