On 9/11/06, Kirill Lokshin <kirill.lokshin(a)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.