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[RLS]

Charlotte Webb wrote:
> On 10/26/07, RLS <evendell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Out of curiosity, was this discussed or presented to the community at
>> large before a decision was made?
> 
> Hopefully you realize any such discussion would reach a perpetual
> stalemate, and nothing would ever happen. And then the explicit "lack
> of consensus" would be used as an argument against any "let's just be
> bold and try it" maneuvers, even by people a handful of people who
> would otherwise support such an action. There has to be a word for
> this phenomenon, but I can't find it at the moment.

I wasn't trying to assert any view on the productivity of such a 
discussion.  Rather, it was a roundabout way of saying "you know, this 
is why people think there's a cabal." Those who are paranoid about that 
sort of thing would have had a field day with GM's original message, and 
probably wouldn't have paid any attention to the ensuing discussion that 
he felt this was the most effective way to get action started, and that 
no "cabalized" decision had been made.

If one were concerned about en.wp's culture *appearing* open to everyone 
to participate in the decision-making process, one wouldn't present 
proposals that way.  That's all.

--Darkwind