What I worry about is that Fanlore is designing a policy without usability concerns or feedback from the people who are actually going to use the system. If the policy is sound but it is designed in a vacuum and is impossible to implement, then you *are* creating barriers to participation and exclusion on a very practical and real level. and it seems to me that *that* is the big shift in Fanlore policy that is not being addressed head on.

the point of Fanlore offering up the policy as a draft is to get the exact type of feedback that I and others have been giving. to be told that we are pre-judging something because we are raising an issue that does not seem even been adequately addressed (usability), is off-putting.