[WikiEN-l] Voting and "!voting", what's the difference?

[Emily Monroe]

> Sure, but that's not what the phrase is actually used to mean.

What does it mean then?

Emily
On Aug 27, 2009, at 9:08 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote:

> 2009/8/28 Emily Monroe <bluecaliocean at me.com>:
>>> A true consensus requires everyone to agree (or, at least, not
>>> object).
>>
>> You're right.
>>
>>> That is why things like RFA work on "rough consensus", which
>>> actually just means a vote.
>>
>> See, my vision of "rough consensus" is something like "If you
>> eliminate people who !vote without leaving any comment to debate  
>> upon,
>> and who hasn't participate in the debate elsewhere, or who do
>> something like WP:WHYNOT, WP:NOTNOW, or WP:I[DON'T]LIKEIT what do you
>> get?" I guess this would be a vote in a sense, albeit a very skewed  
>> one.
>
> Sure, but that's not what the phrase is actually used to mean.
>
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