[WikiEN-l] Spoilers - Ned Scott's comment

[MacGyverMagic/Mgm]

On 5/16/07, Philip Sandifer <snowspinner at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On May 16, 2007, at 2:51 AM, doc wrote:
> >
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> > MfD is crude - but at some level we need a community cluestick where a
> > genuine cross-section of users can, without involving themselves in
> > interminable policy discussion, approach the smaller in-group and
> > scream
> > "STOP IT!!! - NO NO NO!"
>
> Indeed. I tend to think that MfD is a very brutal way to change
> policy. On the other hand, if you can actually get a 2/3 or so
> consensus to delete the policy page on a highly visible and active
> MfD, I can think of few more resounding signs that the policy needs
> to be killed with a stick.
>
> We don't have a good mechanism for policy creation - the process of
> getting something tagged a guideline tends to be "doing it in such a
> way that as few people notice and object as possible." (Lord knows I
> have no idea where most of our so-called guidelines come from.) MfD
> is an ugly way to affect policy, but I think MfDing the spoiler page
> has led to a better discussion of it than any other approach would have.
>
> -Phil


It's not a discussion, people are voting without actually addressing each
other's concerns.

Mgm