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You seem to have missed the entire point of the help
file \'archwizards are always right\'. That point being is
finality. If an arch said x is spam, it is spam. Simple. Seems
to solve problems of ambiguity right nicely.
I\'m perfectly willing to agree help aaar concerns finality.
That\'s orthogonal to my original inquiry, which (I think anyway)
essentially asks how / why something is to be / is determined on grounds
other than \"Because I say so\" or its moral equivalent. On grounds
which aren\'t possibly going to vary based on personality conflicts,
PMS, popularity, and the phase of the moon. \'Cause, that\'s how it
looks to me, currently.
I mean ... say if someone wanted to claim that anything and everything
that made it ... inconvenient, or unpleasant, for a person using an
old-fashioned paper teletype terminal and raw telnet (or perhaps a blind
person using a Braille terminal) to play the game is spam and should or
must be avoided, well, that\'d be objective. (Silly perhaps in the
greater scheme of things, but objective.) (And under such criteria, God
help bards, kerbholtz masters, yadda yadda, right?)
But, for someone to say \"I don\'t like this, it\'s unlike what
I\'m used to doing / seeing in my N years of experience, and I\'m
bigger and stronger than you so I\'m gonna beat you up and make you do
things the way *I* like them to be done\", well... I\'m an illiterate
hack and all, but that sounds to me vaguely like a Lord of the Flies type
situation. (Maybe, anyway. Hell, I dunno, I barely made it through See
Spot Run.) Vaguely Darwinian perhaps, the strong having ultimate mastery
in all fashions and ways over the weak. Which, if that\'s the way
things are, is perfectly all right and everything, but let\'s at least
come out and admit this is what\'s going on.
Referring back to help aaar... No one\'s going to deny that an archwiz
has the authority, and the power, to pronounce something and make it
stick. On _any_ grounds they want to, or no grounds at all. But that has
nothing to do with whether their pronouncement is objective, or
defensible, or even fundamentally fair. (Not that there\'s any
requirement for an archwiz to be any of those things if they choose not to
be -- it\'s their toys, and their rules.) (And, hell, I\'d personally
try to stay the hellout of the way of archwizzes anyway -- one never knows
what\'ll happen with them, I fear.)
Truly, I think Ssmud\'s response, joking as it was, is the flat and
unvarnished fundamental truth.
I guess that\'s kinda sad, if you think about it. But, at least it\'s
honest.
Me, I\'m off to consult my Magic 8-Ball.
Thanks for your time. Be well.
Joseph / JayAreJay