On 8/28/06, Rob <gamaliel8(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Sometimes when people say "experiment", they
mean "let's measure the
reliability of a hypothesis using months worth of carefully worked out
calculations and data measurements". Sometimes when people say
"experiment", they mean "let's try this new thing and see how well it
works
out". It astonishes me that people are attributing a nakedly cynical motive
to a different connotation of a commonly used word.
And no one has proposed how we could have measured the effects without
going ahead and doing it... there are just too many variables. We
could have carefully quantified how much crap is created by anons vs
non-anons, but we couldn't have quantified how many of the crapmakers
would have simply made accounts.
Wikipedia won't be finished in a day...and some times we need to just
try things out if we are to find good solutions.