On Mon, 25 Feb 2002 kband@www.llamacom.com wrote:
It seems we're back at my "trusted" status idea, which was meant to *reduce* the "cabal" by making certain fucntions accessible to many people instead of two. Well, I guess I was ahead of my time again ;)
Increasing the number of people in a cabal doesn't make it less of a cabal unless the vast majority of people are in a cabal. Then you've instead got a situation of unfortunate hierarchies. I'd rather have one or two absolute dictators (so to speak) than an oligarchy.
Well, basically, we should keep the option *open* of having a "trusted" status, as we did before. It's basically silly, unjustified, to call this sort of thing a cabal. I think it's also silly to be very concerned that it might turn into a "cabal," too.
All this being said, I really don't see why we shouldn't just let all registered users edit the homepage. Seems like the most elegant solution all-round.
Larry