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Careless Consideration Considered Harmfulby FoxtrotUniform (Prior) |
on Jun 16, 2004 at 21:26 UTC ( [id://367437]=monkdiscuss: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
I've been getting less and less comfortable with the way people have been considering nodes of late, so I thought I'd speak up. As far as I'm concerned, there are two good reasons to consider a node (modulo legal reasons, which almost never come up for real): retitling a poorly-named node and deleting a true duplicate. Retitling NodesIf you're going to consider a root node for a change of title, please suggest a better title. If you can't come up with something better, you probably shouldn't hit the "moderate" button. I've found a couple of good discussions of "good" titles: Deleting True DupesIf you're going to consider a duplicate for deletion, please make sure that:
Other ConsiderationsAs far as I'm concerned, consideration is a heavyweight tool for content control, and should be used sparingly. Changing or obscuring the author's words is not something that I'm comfortable with under the best of circumstances (insert typical free-speech++ screed here). I think we're pretty conscious of the dangers, and whenever I vote "keep" on a "DELETE: violates community standards" consideration I see a lot of other "keep" votes. I have no great problem with "move to (foo)" considerations, but I haven't seen any recently. There are a number of great nodes on the subject:
Finally: If you're wondering whether or not to consider something, please don't. If you're wondering how to vote on a considered node, please don't vote. As far as I can tell, not considering a deserving node is much less harmful than considering an undeserving one. --
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