I think that the big difference between David’s viewpoint and yours is that he views a wiki as a living, growing thing.
Not really. I view it as a living thing with higher standards and without a willingness to sacrifice quality for growth.
The trouble with your slogans above is that they effectively become:
You are toeing a line here between inappropriate and disingenuous. Not only are my assertions of preference not slogans I was only reluctantly going along with David’s ‘lumps’ metaphor because there were more important things to criticize than an awkward description.
You then proceed to overtly misquote me, adding words that change the meaning to something I quite obviously did not intend. Following up with “Did you really mean to make these slogans so strong?” just strikes the logical rudeness home.
occasional and temporary lumps.
Aside from not being what I referred to this does not accurately represent the kind of system that David was describing either.
Not really. I view it as a living thing with higher standards and without a willingness to sacrifice quality for growth.
You are toeing a line here between inappropriate and disingenuous. Not only are my assertions of preference not slogans I was only reluctantly going along with David’s ‘lumps’ metaphor because there were more important things to criticize than an awkward description.
You then proceed to overtly misquote me, adding words that change the meaning to something I quite obviously did not intend. Following up with “Did you really mean to make these slogans so strong?” just strikes the logical rudeness home.
Aside from not being what I referred to this does not accurately represent the kind of system that David was describing either.
No, actually it does. There will always be lumps, but any given lump will be temporary.