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Jim Sower wrote:

> <... even "known solution" list may be a bit of a stretch ...
> So have a "convention" (I dare'nt say rule :o) that "solutions" must 
> be accompanied by supporting documentation around how thoroughly they 
> have been tested, how much flight time, detailed rationale for setting 
> things up exactly this way, etc.  Gives readers a lot more data with 
> which to make an informed decision.
> Jim S.


In actual practice, this is what tends to happen.  On a list, as in any 
free-wheeling discussion, people are encouraged to throw out ideas and 
pull them apart.  Not much discussion otherwise.  When you deem to 
present your ideas to the world, with the hope that you'll be accepted 
as more knowledgable than a garden slug, there is a lot of 
self-censoring that occurs.  A few people don't have the capacity to 
self-censor.  Those basket cases are few and most respond well to a good 
thrashing with facts and sound logic.  A miniscule minority do not 
respond to anything other than their own whims.  Those recalcitrant 
bastards are best dealt with through ostracization.  Fortunately, 
members of the former category are so few and so rarely cause problems 
that it isn't worth trying to design the system around them.  The system 
works because contributors earn merit by being correct.  Obstinate, 
loud, or borish gets ignored.

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