On Sep 20, 2005, at 1:56 PM, Tony Sidaway wrote:
On 9/20/05, Philip Sandifer snowspinner@gmail.com wrote:
Thus it will always be the case that AfD becomes unmanageable, and that the unmanageability affects the exclusionists noticably less than the inclusionists.
Actually my conclusion is the opposite, from more or less the same set of observations.
The problem is that this leads to an inclusionist position with a substantial and non-trivial exclusionist force that goes and mucks things up. The result is, I think, bad, and bad in a way that is still exclusionist. The result is that, instead of a consistent exclusionism, we have an inconsistent one - some number of articles will get deleted, those articles will stay deleted regardless of the arguments to the contrary, and those articles will be selected more or less at random.
-Snowspinner