I think we're all agreed that being community driven is a good thing - some of ATT's reasons are given at att:All The Tropes:Why Fork TV Tropes. We've had bad experiences with ... let's call it "top-down management".
I think we're also agreed that a complete democracy won't work; the spammers and control-freaks would outvote the contributors, and Miraheze as a whole would suffer for it. The tyranny of the majority is at least as bad as "top-down management" is.
Where the line should be drawn between the two extremes is, of course, up for debate. I like where it had been drawn by the Miraheze Stewards, and it'll take quite a bit of convincing to get me to change my opinion on how much power the Stewards should have.
And a personal note: John, I for one would welcome your participation in this forum.
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
I think we're also agreed that a complete democracy won't work; the spammers and control-freaks would outvote the contributors, and Miraheze as a whole would suffer for it. The tyranny of the majority is at least as bad as "top-down management" is.
Where the line should be drawn between the two extremes is, of course, up for debate. I like where it had been drawn by the Miraheze Stewards, and it'll take quite a bit of convincing to get me to change my opinion on how much power the Stewards should have.
And a personal note: John, I for one would welcome your participation in this forum.
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012