User:SoledadKabocha/essays/The talk page paradox restated

The optimal quantity of discussion on a talk page is neither zero nor infinity. It's a nontrivial problem to find that optimal quantity.

When "B" leads to "R," we need "D" to keep things civil. However, if discussion were required before every change that has any potential for controversy, we wouldn't accomplish anything soon enough.

Wikipedia is so large that RC patrolling can't substitute for watchlists; also, not all discussion is equally productive. That's why we need to be bold in the first place, and thus we need to go through the BRD process to arrive at an optimal volume of discussion.