[WikiEN-l] Radical redefinition of OR

[Sheldon Rampton]

Fred Bauder wrote:

> There is all this authority behind Jimbo. There are a couple of  
> problems: there is a drive-by aspect to it, it's Jimbo and you feel  
> you should defer; the other problem is much more serious, by doing  
> this Jimbo doesn't have the experience of being an ordinary editor  
> that people feel they can ignore, of vainly citing policy and being  
> told, forcefully, with the threat of a block, that he's just  
> "trolling".

Actually, Jimbo's authority fairly often translates into the OPPOSITE  
of people deferring -- as this particulat instance illustrates. If  
someone other than Jimbo had made this particular edit, no one would  
have considered it significant enough to be discussing on wikien-l.  
No one sees much point in rebelling against just another commoner,  
but if the king does something you don't like, you're more likely to  
call for revolution.

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