Rick Falkvinge has been writing a book,
"Swarmwise", on how the Pirate
Party organised. He's been posting it a chapter at a time to his blog.
You know how Wikipedia/Wikimedia has (or had) the meme that "voting is
evil"? This sets out why.
http://falkvinge.net/2013/07/01/swarmwise-the-tactical-manual-to-changing-t…
tl;dr: voting creates winners and losers, and losers are unhappy and
disengage.
- d.
And what is the difference when any Wikipedian with good sense avoids
participation in any policy discussion unless there is massive consensus.
Practical experience with anarchic decision-making shows that aggressive
idiots rule.
Fred