[WikiEN-l] Special rules for "controversial" AFDs

[Phil Sandifer]

On Apr 8, 2007, at 5:44 PM, Ron Ritzman wrote:

> If it is necessary to treat certain controversial sock prone AFDs this
> way then a policy needs to be adopted covering it, who can invoke
> "special rules", under what circumstances, and what qualifies an
> account to "vote" when the rule is invoked. This is so it doesn't look
> like the nominator is pulling rules out of his ass. If I am not
> mistaken, users have been warned in the past about making up their own
> policies.

Dreadful idea. There's no way to close an AfD like this to  
everybody's satisfaction. I'd rather the thing that pisses people off  
be a well-reasoned human than an arbitrary set of rules.

-Phil