I agree that is bad. But it’s equally bad if people propose ideas with little or no justification, and no appreciation of the costs of their proposal. Making people “run the gauntlet” is a bad way of weeding out bad proposals, but we don’t seem very good at finding a better way (I’ve seen far too many “I think it would be neat if Python did such-and-such” proposals that wasted way too much of people’s time because they didn’t get shut down fast enough or effectively enough).
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