Look ma, I'm a lawyer!
I'll note that yesterday I was a fireman.
And an astronaut the day before.
Isn't pretending fun?
-Chad
-Chad On Apr 26, 2013 7:25 AM, "Sumana Harihareswara" sumanah@wikimedia.org wrote:
Luis, the thread: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/352923
On 04/26/2013 06:00 AM, Tyler Romeo wrote:
it's straight up obnoxious to come into a thread and undermine a topic people care about by calling it "a waste of bytes and people's attention".
No, David isn't calling the *topic* a waste; he's saying that it's more valuable to hear lawyers speak about this particular messy legal topic than to hear non-lawyers argue about it.
Also, you should seriously look up the definition of the work
bikeshedding.
It's the theory that organizations give undue weight to trivial issues.
Not organizations - noisy individuals. http://bikeshed.org/ "the amount of noise generated by a change is inversely proportional to the complexity of the change." Specifically, it's an observation that lots of people speak up when something comes up where they can have an opinion. From the canonical email:
In Denmark we call it "setting your fingerprint". It is about personal pride and prestige, it is about being able to point somewhere and say "There! *I* did that." It is a strong trait in politicians, but present in most people given the chance. Just think about footsteps in wet cement.
Regardless, it's fine for David to opine that lawyers' opinions do carry more weight here than non-lawyers'.
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