On Thursday 23 October 2003 12:27 pm, Ray Saintonge
wrote:
A better solution would be to accept his votes at
face value, worth
neither more nor less than anyone else's. Obviously he has a strong
attitude against deletions in general. There should be no obligation
for him to justify his votes.
Of course there is a need to justify votes in contentious cases, and most
regular contributers to VfD do so. VfD, despite its title, is not just a
voting booth but also a discussion area about deletion. How can one make an
informed decision if one does not know the motivations of the people casting
the votes?
I don't waste a lot of time at VfD, and I don't visit the Village Pump
much anymore. I find that the amount of time that I spend on the
mailing lists more than adequately fills the time that I have available
for controversy. So the ones who enjoy working on VfD shouldn't
complain about others having different priorities. Maybe the people who
don't justify themselves do so because they don't feel the need to
engage in the same old tired defences over and over and over again. And
why should someone else'e motivation affect your decision to make an
informed vote?
Perhaps we should ask the people who put things on VfD to explain what
they did to improve the situation before they made that request. ;-)
Ec