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