- From: Joe Clark <joeclark@joeclark.org>
- Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 18:45:15 +0000 (UTC)
- To: WAI-IG <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
> If you have something constructive to add, get involved and discuss
> possible solutions with the group.
Actually, no, it is not the responsibility of the critic to solve the
problem. Pauline Kael was not expected to rewrite and redirect the films
she disliked.
The esteemed Working Group likes two things to be true at once:
* preferred participants can propose anything they want, which remains in
place until its removal or modification is proposed by a preferred
participant
* other participants are expected to completely rewrite guidelines they
can demonstrate are wrong
Since not everybody who can spot a mistake can fix it (I know there's a
leak in the ceiling; do you expect me to get up there with a ladder and a
bucket o' tar?), the latter expectation has the effect of permitting
preferred participants to ignore everybody else.
Which they in fact do.
If you want to have preferred participants (and you *do* have them), then
stop being surprised when everyone else tries to play by your rules and
gets *you* to do the work required to fix what you screwed up in the first
place.
And as for the question in the subject line: Joke.
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Received on Monday, 16 August 2004 18:45:21 UTC