Well, general consensus builds up from miscellanous contemporary practices and ideas, right? If I write my manifesto down it won't be the same as yours, I assume. I don't see that an individual podficcer writing their own policies down should be perceived as laying down battle lines if that person is not belligerent in their wording, and even less if it is easily obvious that podficcers don't all have the same opinions and policies. No?

I don't want to create hard and fast boundaries especially, in the sense that I believe every system needs a way to deal with unique cases and varying circumstances... but we're not talking of building an actual system (there is and won't ever be an authority of podfic) - rather we're talking about loosely connected people each thinking through for themselves what they're ready to do and not do, and we're projecting the potential consensus that could evolve over time without any status as enforceable rules, so...

Am I making any sense? The day has been long and I'm starting to droop, I admit. :)