Yeah, my first guess was that the tool allowed everybody to have an input on what best practices should look like and enable distributing the final consensus to

Yeah, my first guess was that the tool allowed everybody to have an input on what best practices should look like and enable distributing the final consensus to everybody. So if today best practice is 4 space indent, this would be the default, but if enough people changed it to one tab, that would change everybody's default and reformat their code to conform with the new best practice.