> On 6/27/07, Tony Sidaway
<tonysidaway(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> The only workable concept of consensus I've ever discovered is
>> stability. If hundreds of people edit a piece of work in good faith
>> over a long period, what changes least over time may be presumed to be
>> there by consensus. However even the most apparently stable elements
>> of a work may be deposed quite easily. The result may be a new
>> consensus or, in other cases, a period of instability where the new
>> version and the old version compete.
This is easy to game. Just find a situation where dropping the work of the
hundreds of people is easy, but restoring it is orders of magnitude more
difficult. Drop their work and then claim a new "consensus" because it
isn't restored.