Phil Sandifer wrote:
On Oct 1, 2006, at 4:50 AM, Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:
I hear you. Perhaps that long discussed speedy criterion for "advertisements masquerading as articles" should be introduced.
Oh God, please no. You have no idea what that would become in the hands of some of our admins.
Is there anything we can do about *that* problem? If we can't at least document our norms for fear of the documentation being misused, that sounds like a precarious situation.
(In particular, if an argument for not writing down a policy is that people are supposed to be flexible but reasonable and, most of the time, do the same sorts of thing that the hypothetical written-down policy would stipulate, but if the additional fear is that, once the policy got written down, it would be misused by unreasonable people, what does that say about their behavior in the absence of the written-down policy?)