He's a highly intelligent person who has been around the block a few times - I'm not exactly sure how old Elf Sternberg is, but he had already been a net.lumina

He's a highly intelligent person who has been around the block a few times - I'm not exactly sure how old Elf Sternberg is, but he had already been a net.luminary for some time back when I first discovered usenet. He's not saying "this is stupid" because it's new and different; he's saying "this is stupid" because he's seen this particular decision made before, and he has a pretty good idea where the story is going to go from here.