On 10/11/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/10/2007, fredbaud@waterwiki.info fredbaud@waterwiki.info wrote:
Except, we haven't adopted any such policy, again the strawman.
Except there are people who behave exactly like we have, so the name appears accurate as well as convenient. You can't hinder people talking about what's blatantly happening by telling them they're not allowed to use the proper names for things.
Right. The (failed, non-consensus) policy proposal represents the opinion of a large minority fraction of longterm users. Who act accordingly.
It is a large enough fraction to be a problem rather than rare abberant behavior, and small enough that it's not a consensus.
There are aspects of our decisionmaking process that suck. Dealing with strongly divisive polarizing issues is one of them.