[WikiEN-l] Re: RickK: How do you get from a mistake to "up to no good" and "vote rigging?"

So, you're saying he made a careless mistake? That's the big deal? Comments like RickK's are advisory to whatever sysop acts on the VfD. Unless he actions the item himself he doesn't control what votes "are counted." Secondly, if you advise a sysop to disregard half of a comment, even if the sysop accepts all of RickK's recommendations uncritically, that isn't going to affect the vote, is it? Third, VfD discussions are based on consensus, which means that exact vote counts are not supposed to be and usually are not important. It's not like we're talking about hanging chads. And, finally, the reason VfD discussions last for as long as they do is so that mistakes can be corrected. How do you get from point A), an arguably careless mistake which _even if accepted uncritically by the acting sysop_ would not have affected the vote count, which isn't very important anyway, to point B), "up to no good" and "vote rigging?" -- Daniel P. B. Smith, dpbsmith(a)verizon.net "Elinor Goulding Smith's Great Big Messy Book" is now back in print! Sample chapter at http://world.std.com/~dpbsmith/messy.html Buy it at http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1403314063/