On 6/6/07, Chris Howie cdhowie@nerdshack.com wrote:
^demon really needs to be tapped with the clue-by-four. There are honest mistakes, and then there's willful ignorance coupled with [[WP:IDONTLIKEIT]]. I'm going to AGF and assume it's an honest mistake.
What I find concerning here is that, according to Sj's timeline:
"May 31 : ^demon speedily closes a deletion review about BJAODN, with "Closing this early. First and foremost, DRV is now based on strength of arguments, rather than vote-counting. The basic strength of the argument in regards to BJAODN being a GFDL violation is a simple fact and there is no way to refute it."
This appears to be yet another example of an attempt to "snowball" a discussion where reasonable people can very much disagree. Voting on everything is one extreme that we all agree we want to avoid. Letting a small core of users decide on a whim what they like or what they don't like is equally bad policy. Process does not necessarily mean "voting", but certainly it includes giving people an opportunity to examine & make arguments.
Killing process whenever one side feels that they are absolutely, certainly, 100% correct, does not work. For in almost any debate, there will be a subset of people who feel that way about their own opinions.