Oh, please. Y’all are so predictable. You’ve BEEN answered. Y’all just don’t like the answer you got, so you keep hammering away trying to get a different answer. That’s very much commonplace around here, though admittedly it’s a much louder and larger crowd this time.
I raised concerns over the vagueness of the new Pit standard right as it came out. I got the response: wait and see how it plays out. I’ve decided to do just that. That’s the answer, folks, and hammering away for 50 pages of posts isn’t going to change it. Nor is bleating the same refrain over and over going to produce any different response. It kind of reminds me of the description of what happened to the Ainulindale: the brass and percussion of Melkor braying the same notes over and over, louder and louder, attempting to simply drown out any other sound.
Stop. Take a long five (days, not minutes). See what happens. Do what I believe mhendo said he was going to do: post as if the new rule wasn’t really much of a change and see what happens. When an issue comes up, deal with it politely and concisely with staff. If over the long run, evidence arises that one or more of your concerns was justifiable, raise it again, supported by your evidence. See if you can persuade Ed to modify or change his position. But don’t expect that the braying of horns is going to bring down the walls of Jericho. 