On 9/16/05, Phil Boswell phil.boswell@gmail.com wrote:
"Ryan Delaney" ryan.delaney@gmail.com wrote in message news:eecbb0630509152024421173d4@mail.gmail.com...
You don't just discard their votes without comment.
From whence do you gain the impression that Tony "discards" those votes?
My take on his comment was that he felt more satisfaction closing a discussion which appeared more "informed", rather than having his conclusion affected.
This was my original meaning. However I take issue with the apparent implication that an Afd closer must give equal weight to all expressions of opinion.
I generally take such expressions into account where the numbers seem to be close to my personal comfort zones on consensus/no consensus, but in the extreme case one edit that says "delete, this is a hoax documented at X" or "keep, this fellow was President of Venezuela from 1976-1980, as documented at Y, and I have edited the article to include this referenced fact" outweighs any number of "delete, non-notable Miami beach bum" votes.