On 4/11/07, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
In other words, it seems that you believe that you favour the side with the most windbags. If this is indeed a "vote" what difference does it make if someone does not explain his vote? If each person who voted spent only one minute on the process for this vote alone that's about 400 minutes or nearly seven hours of time wasted away from doing something constructive. Some windbags spent much more time than that.
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I don't favor any side. I don't even participate on RFA regularly. What I'm trying to do is get some idea of what exactly RFA is, as opposed to what people say it is. Is it a vote or isn't it? Are people supposed to substantiate their opinions or not? If it's a vote then stop discounting oppose votes because of their stated opinions and come up with a hard number for passing and stick with it. If it's a discussion to determine consensus then start discounting useless support votes. As it is, it seems closer to a vote, with the occasional "interpretation of consensus" to justify controversial decisions.