On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 11:58:41AM -0700, Ray Saintonge wrote:
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 18:32:01 -0700 But Joe User still needs to plug information into the template. Or in the course of ordinary editing he runs into a template which is not suitable to his subject, but it's beyond his technical capacity to trace the problem. It's easy to say that he should ask someone more experienced in thee things, but that detracts from his editing experience and the genuine value that he has as a content provider.
That sounds like an argument in favor of penalizing smart users at the expense of stupid users -- worse, making it harder for the smart users to *help* the stupid users.
That way lies madness, and sweaty palms.
The word that describes that attitude is "arrogance". It's on a par with a politician saying, "Trust me."
Excuse me?
You're suggesting that *assuming users are smart enough to cope with more power in their wiki environment* is *arrogant*?
It seems to *me* that being all paternal and saying "don't put that power in there; people aren't smart enough to cope with it" is what's arrogant.
Others may have spent 25 years developing their experience in other areas of knowledge, with only negligible experience in computer systems. That does not make them "stupid", and should not qualify them for such insults. Without the content, the Wikipedia that you envision would be nothing more than an empty shell.
I made no insults.
I characterized my perception of the argument being made, and evinced my opinion on it.
If you think that's arrogance, I think you're projecting.
Cheers, -- jra