[WikiEN-l] My proposal

[koyaanisqatsi at nupedia.com]

Jimbo writes:
>What do you think of my idea of my selecting a board of "approvers"
>who don't reject posts, and then me logging in once a day (at least)
>to handle the rest?  This shouldn't burden my time unnecessarily, nor
>should it slow the list down much, if we have enough approvers to keep
>things moving along reasonably well.

I like this idea, at first, but then I remember Cunctator's objections
and am put in mind of Kitty Genovese.  In short, while I doubt
anyone's life will be on the line based on a posting to wikiEN (or
lack thereof), the underlying principle is the same, isn't it? 
Sometimes groupthink in public keeps people from acting when they
should, and no one is left accountable.

What would keep the "approvers" from ignoring a valuable message
without consequence?  Suppose all approvers came to dislike a poster
and all independently decided to ignore the poster, but the poster had
something valuable to say?

kq