User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-1293767-20151029072618/@comment-26469787-20151124043327

Shambala108 wrote: Are you claiming that only users who have been involved since the beginning can have any input? As long as the discussion is open, anyone is welcome to join in. And technically speaking, nothing is resolved until ruled on by an admin. No I am not. Nothing I wrote suggested anything of the kind. Shambala108 wrote: I believe I spent quite a bit of time on my suggestion (which is really Tangerineduel's), giving the pros and cons. Since this is clearly not the same as this three qualifier rule, it should be obvious that I don't favor the three-qualifier rule. And I personally think my suggestion is a valid one. My point was about objections. Yours was not an objection, but a counter-suggestion. Shambala108 wrote: It's a common mistake that users make, thinking that just because a policy isn't followed, it either isn't or shouldn't be valid. This is a big wiki, and there are dozens of people editing every day, and they make mistakes. There is only a small handful of users that regularly correct the mistakes, and plenty of mistakes get overlooked. That doesn't invalidate any policy. Let me put it like this: the "policy" we are debating here has not been followed at all. I'm not concerned about whether it is or was a policy, I'm stating that this wiki has never followed this policy. Therefore, I suggest that it might be a good idea to firmly establish a policy, and also ensure beforehand that that policy is what the community currently agree upon.