Three points:
- On this basis, every single node that has ever been deleted on the basis of it being off topic should be forthwith reinstated.
For the record. I am not in favour of this.
- I thought that the main difference between the CB and other mechanisms for communication in this place, was that the CB was impermenant. Ie. Logs of it should not be kept.
If these exists, beyond the temporary life extension of cblast35, they shouldn't--at least as I understand it. And if they do exist, how is anyone without knowledge of their existance, meant to consult them.
This is the basis of my objection to the use of the CB as a mechanism for deciding site policy. You say that the gods were consulted prior to your reinstating the post--but how can this be verified?
- Your hope that this "...wont get political....", is, and should be, forelorn.
Any expression of power, as you expressed when you overode the (much lauded) consideration system, is, by it's very nature, political.
Effectively, it renders that system irrelevant and bogus.
You have, in that single, misconceived action, confirmed my expressed misgivings, that you decried as hurtful, that the administration of this place is arbitrary, capricious, and totally bankrupt as a societally-based ethical mechanism.
That's okay. There is no Monk's Charter, or Bill of Rights involved on this site--but the pretense that there is should now stop.
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