On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 06:31, Jimmy Wales wrote:
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.
Sorry. I should have said: "most changes to policy *pages* don't need to be discussed *before they are made* (but if they indicate a meaningful change to policy, they definitely need to be brought to the attention of as many people as possible)."
I hope that makes it more clear.
Ed Poor has done a better job of expressing what I'm trying to express. Maybe it's because he's less truculent.