[WikiEN-l] Meta-discussion: Groupthink

[Thomas Dalton]

On 21/11/2007, Daniel R. Tobias <dan at tobias.name> wrote:
> I find it interesting, and a little distressing, that there seems to be a
> "groupthink" phenomenon on this list (and also sometimes on Wikipedia
> itself).  I saw it just now in the discussion of an expulsion from this list.
> When it was first brought up for comment, there was a "me-too" chorus of
> agreement with the ban.  Then, a day later, I posted my dissenting
> commentary (which I actually wrote yesterday, but failed to successfully post
> due to a misconfigured mail program... getting outbound mail sent while on
> vacation and using various different access providers is a pain with all the
> security moves and port blocking tossing up hoops to be navigated), and
> suddenly there were several other dissenting views following in close
> succession.

Surely that's *why* you posted your views, in order to try and
convince people to agree with you. That's how discussions work - if
someone makes a good point, people tend to agree with it.