[Foundation-l] Rules committee

[cohesion]

On 11/16/06, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 16/11/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) <alphasigmax at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Ray Saintonge wrote:
>
> > > I would llike to propose a Rules Committee on the following bases.
>
> > I have to disagree with the initial openness. We have too many process
> > wonks who would jump at the chance, and we'll end up only being allowed
> > to edit every second thursday when it's a prime number of days from the
> > vernal equinox of Triton...
>
>
> Proposal: a Rules Elimination Committee. They can only remove rules,
> not put through new ones.

I don't know if this was a joke, but I actually like the idea. We seem
more than capable of creating new rules all the time (ahem [[Wikipedia
talk:Community sanction]]). Creating rules is chaotic now, but is that
a bad thing? I like process efficiency, but an efficient rules
creation system seems a little dangerous.