On 6/27/06, Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com wrote:
Could this be written up in red writing somewhere? It seems to be very common that non-devs tell each other not to do things because "it's bad for performance" etc.
I wish it would be. For the time being I have to make do with quoting http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29&diff=36029520&oldid=36025274 all the time, but for some reason some people think that "'Policy' shouldn't really concern itself with server load except in the most extreme of cases; keeping things tuned to provide what the user base needs is our job" somehow doesn't mean what it says except for meta-templates.