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by jebus989 4180 days ago
You're making leaps of logic based on the occasional HN anecdote. Numbers have been in decline since 2007, what percentage of those left over bickering about rules? Do you have any evidence for this given that IAR has been in place as a core principle throughout?

IAR can be and indeed is invoked all the time, making Wikipedia a bad example of how strict rule adherence stifles a community. It was quite a simple point that needn't warrant downvotes, italics and so many HN searches.
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jacquesm 4180 days ago
> Do you have any evidence for this given that IAR has been in place as a core principle throughout?

> It was quite a simple point that needn't warrant downvotes, italics and so many HN searches.

You ask for more evidence in the same comment in which you rant against 'so many HN searches', do you notice the inconsistency there?

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jebus989 4180 days ago
Happy to continue to debate this point (possibly on another medium?) but no, a comment 437 days ago on HN saying "I once tried to edit but was reverted" is not evidence that too many rules have "murdered wikipedia", your original contention with which I took issue.
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DanBC 4180 days ago
Can you provide any on-WP examples of people using IAR sucessfully?
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