[WikiEN-l] Bureaucrats decide!

[Dycedarg]

On 4/11/07, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:

> In other words, it seems that you believe that you favour the side with
> the most windbags.  If this is indeed a "vote" what difference does it
> make if someone does not explain his vote?  If each person who voted
> spent only one minute on the process for this vote alone that's about
> 400 minutes or nearly seven hours of time wasted away from doing
> something constructive.  Some windbags spent much more time than that.
>
> Ec
>

I don't favor any side. I don't even participate on RFA regularly. What I'm
trying to do is get some idea of what exactly RFA is, as opposed to what
people say it is. Is it a vote or isn't it? Are people supposed to
substantiate their opinions or not? If it's a vote then stop discounting
oppose votes because of their stated opinions and come up with a hard number
for passing and stick with it. If it's a discussion to determine consensus
then start discounting useless support votes. As it is, it seems closer to a
vote, with the occasional "interpretation of consensus" to justify
controversial decisions.

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Dycedarg