On Mar 6, 2007, at 10:19 PM, Mark Williamson wrote:
The worst of all is that anyone who mentions the
increasingly
hierarchial structure of our communities and the virtual impunity
afforded to certain persons (especially admins in medium-sized Wikis,
who often rule like dictators), they are instantly perceived as
anti-Wiki and/or paranoid.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:IAR> exists for a reason, and for
me, that reason is to totally bypass bureaucratic wonks and trolls
who get their rocks off from wiki-lawyering, and constantly
complaining about process, pet projects, pet issues, etc.
It may very well do that, but at the same time it is not there to be
trotted out as an excuse for every POV pusher's actions.
Ec