Wow--I guess Bill was right! We've been working with
Bill Maxwell on the next iteration of the rules, and he cautioned me against putting out anything that we haven't gone over too thoroughly. I said most people understood the idea of a beta and open source, and "publish early, publish often," but he said we'd get some bad reviews on early stuff that'd probably stick with us for good. I hope this one review doesn't kill off the whole project before it even gets off the ground, though, and I hope people reading this will take the open source spirit to heart and offer their suggestions to make it better.
A lot of this is stuff we're actually already addressing. I appreciate your review, Wil, I really do; it gives us a very good list of points to hone in on as development continues. We originally wanted to get something out as quickly as possible so that we could involve the general public as quickly as possible, so I love to see points like these, they're what we were really hoping for. I just hope Bill's prophecy doesn't come completely true, and people reading this will be willing to come back and give us another look once we released version 1.0.