Pavitra wrote: > For an idea of how badly platonism isn't fail-safe, look up the Annabel > Crisis, due to which ratification was invented.
The concept of ratification dates back to at least Rule 352: http://agora.qoid.us/rule/352#521323 and a general mechanism was protoed as early as 1998: http://zenith.homelinux.net/awj/19980112.txt The Annabel Crisis occurred in 2003. Also in 2003 (but apparently otherwise unrelated), Sherlock noticed that ratification methods other than proposal were broken: http://agora.qoid.us/rule/1552#544950 http://agora.qoid.us/rule/1552#545728
