[WikiEN-l] avoiding rule-boundedness

[Mark Nilrad]

"Social control" can also be termed "mob rule". That term has previously been used to describe Wikipedia by outside sources.

Noble Story

Philip Sandifer <snowspinner at gmail.com> wrote: 
On May 26, 2008, at 12:54 AM, Todd Allen wrote:

Our policies are almost, but not entirely incidental to the actual  
work of improving the encyclopedia - they're certainly a second line  
of defense, consulted when the first line of defense - social control  
- fails.

In other words, what we need is not better policy, but rather better  
users who rely on thought and judgment that is informed by principles,  
not on rigid policy.

-Phil

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