Re^2: Why the decrement points (facts)

[Aristotle]

limitations

“Restrictions” would be a better word in this case.

It isn’t just limited; this information is not available to the general membership or public by design.

[jonadab]

If it were only a restriction, the restriction might only apply to people without enough credentials. Indeed, there are such restrictions, and there are people who have permissions (using the web interface) to see things that others cannot see, due to these restrictions. However, the web interface also has limitations, things it simply has not been programmed to do, irrespective of the permission bits attached to your account; these limitations can nevertheless be bypassed by the few people with direct access to the database.

So the web interface has both limitations and restrictions.

[Aristotle]

We’re both arguing semantics. What I was saying is that “limitations” may make it sound as though they are accidental or due to bad design, and I pointed out that it is not so, but rather, they are very deliberate. If you then prefer “deliberate limitations” rather than “restrictions,” so be it; the terminology is not significant.