On 9/11/06, Kirill Lokshin kirill.lokshin@gmail.com wrote:
Well, yes. AFD and its ilk are designed precisely to maximize the ability of the "uninvolved" to !vote on as many nominations as possible, as efficiently as possible. (Hence the emergence of WikiVoter, or whatever they're calling it this week.) This is not a function of the particular details of the process, incidentally, but rather the fact that a rigidly centralized process like the current AFD necessarily encourages people to participate on topics of which they are mostly ignorant (and about which they couldn't care less, usually -- except for the fact that they happened to come up in that day's deletion listings).
(The obvious consequence of this is that we can expect any fundamental change to AFD will be rigidly resisted by those whose heavy participation in the deletion process might be curtailed by such a change.)
That was a beautiful description of the broken process. It's amazing it still lasts to this day.