I don’t see the logic that says we should keep tags short.
The argument is that with the current level of editor engagement, only short tags have any chance of actually getting reviewed and meaningfully changed if that’s called for. It’s not about the result of a particular change to the wiki, but about the place where the trajectory of similar changes plausibly takes it in the long run.
I think reversion is kind of overpowered.
A good thing about the reversion feature is that reversion can itself be reverted, and so it’s not as final as when it’s inconvenient to revert the reversions. This makes edit wars more efficient, more likely to converge on a consensus framing rather than with one side giving up in exhaustion.
Would you revert my Futarchy edits if you could?
The point is that absence of the feature makes engagement with the wiki less promising, as it becomes inconvenient and hence infeasible in practice to protect it in detail, and so less appealing to invest effort in it. I mentioned that as a hypothesis for explaining currently near-absent editor engagement, not as something relevant to reverting your edits.
Reverting your edits would follow from a norm that says such edits are inappropriate. I think this norm would be good, but it’s also clearly not present, since there are no active editors to channel it. My opinion here only matters as much as the arguments around it convince you or other potential wiki editors, the fact that I hold this opinion shouldn’t in itself have any weight. (So to be clear, currently I wouldn’t revert the edits if I could. I would revert them only if there were active editors and they overall endorsed the norm of reverting such edits.)
Thanks for replying.
Would you revert my Futarchy edits if you could?
I think reversion is kind of overpowered. I’d prefer reverting chunks.
I don’t see the logic that says we should keep tags short. That just seems less useful
The argument is that with the current level of editor engagement, only short tags have any chance of actually getting reviewed and meaningfully changed if that’s called for. It’s not about the result of a particular change to the wiki, but about the place where the trajectory of similar changes plausibly takes it in the long run.
A good thing about the reversion feature is that reversion can itself be reverted, and so it’s not as final as when it’s inconvenient to revert the reversions. This makes edit wars more efficient, more likely to converge on a consensus framing rather than with one side giving up in exhaustion.
The point is that absence of the feature makes engagement with the wiki less promising, as it becomes inconvenient and hence infeasible in practice to protect it in detail, and so less appealing to invest effort in it. I mentioned that as a hypothesis for explaining currently near-absent editor engagement, not as something relevant to reverting your edits.
Reverting your edits would follow from a norm that says such edits are inappropriate. I think this norm would be good, but it’s also clearly not present, since there are no active editors to channel it. My opinion here only matters as much as the arguments around it convince you or other potential wiki editors, the fact that I hold this opinion shouldn’t in itself have any weight. (So to be clear, currently I wouldn’t revert the edits if I could. I would revert them only if there were active editors and they overall endorsed the norm of reverting such edits.)