These Wikipedia 1984-style debates are what the whole hep world would be doing on Saturday night if Kafka's dreams came true. Which they are, slowly. Get used

These Wikipedia 1984-style debates are what the whole hep world would be doing on Saturday night if Kafka's dreams came true. Which they are, slowly. Get used to it: this is the ugly face of herd politics, and it's only going to get more common with time, sadly. The only solution I know to this is to set up a strongly empowered group of stewards with their heart in the right place and the power and mandate to step in and fix things when they go awry - yet even that is fraught with issues, such as what happens when the stewards themselves are corrupted with idiots. Until we have a foolproof system for weeding out well-meaning and well-sounding and hard-working idiots, this is what every organisation will naturally tend towards until a dictator takes over it and either destroys it or makes it wholesome again.