On 6/17/06, Dabljuh samw@student.ethz.ch wrote: ....
Currently Wikipedia is too much of an MMORPG: If one editor has 500 edits, and another has 20'000, and they have a dispute, the editor with 20'000 edits always wins - especially so when he is a sysop himself, the chances for which increase almost exponentially with the number of posts. This is not a way to find consensus: Consensus must be found in debate. And debate is the hardest of all ways to fight an opposite POV - It is almost always the more successful strategy to get the opposite side blocked than to actually get down and find this sacred consensus (or compromise).
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Actually, this isn't true. One of the more interesting results of various RFA statistical analyses is that chances of being nominated for / passing RFA increase polynomically (ie, greater than merely linear, but almost certainly not an exponential) with edit count up until about 3/4000, at which point it increase linearly and at some point around twice the first threshold begins to fall.
~maru