On 2/27/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Shut AFD for a month. The article load will be negligible compared to the daily firehose of crap, and we can do without the poisonousness inside and outside the project.
This isn't as ridiculous an idea as it seemed (to me) at first glance. Maybe not a month, but a few days or a week where the process was halted and a discussion about AfD took place instead might at least move the community, and particularly the AfD regulars, closer to consensus on what the proper purpose and methods of the deletion process should be.
Nothing new is likely to be said, but at least it will make a larger proportion of !voters aware of a larger proportion of the viewpoints. And probably get some users to put some more thought into their own positions.
-Sage