Officially. But that's really the same as calling a duck a chicken. It
still quacks.
There's no significant difference between AFD and the former VFD. It
*is* a strict vote. The only time the "count' is disregarded is when the
closing admin wants to push his own way. This usually leading to
lynch-mobbery, several users "quitting", and an eventual "consensus"
for
the decision of the closing administrator. Usually.
Anytime an admin steps in on a controversial AFD and decides "today it's
a discussion, and not a vote" will have several hundred editors calling
for his head in the next 24 hours. This is quite disruptive to the
project. Even more so than an exiled user created 400 sockpuppets. For
example.
David Gerard wrote:
On 12/05/07, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Tony_Sidaway
"This adminstrator has subverted the intent of VfD on numerous
occasions." i.e., he didn't just count votes.
Note that it was soon after this that VFD became AFD, and officially
not an exercise in vote-counting.
- d.
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