The Cunctator wrote:
What I'm saying is that most changes to policy don't need to be discussed.
Oh, but this can't be right. If policy isn't discussed, and people don't read the policy pages regularly (and they don't), then the policy pages don't have a strong impact on existing members. The policy pages are there mostly to orient newcomers, and to serve as a "reference" for the rest of us to remember what some consensus was in the past.
If you change a policy page today, I might not see it. (I confess to not looking at RecentChanges every day.) Then I'll go on my merry way doing things the "old way".
The only real policy change comes when a majority or consensus of participants achieves a change of heart and change of mind on a subject.
--Jimbo