On 8/8/07, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
On 8/8/07, Leif Knutsen vyerllc@gmail.com wrote:
I think there are two opposing extremes here.
On the one hand, if it were a clear majority vote, then Todd is right
- a bot would suffice to close it, precisely 120 hours after it
opened.
Bots aren't very good at detecting sock puppets.
On the other hand, the preponderance of the views have to count for something, if the term "consensus" is to have any meaning.
The term "consensus", as used in Wikipedia, lost its meaning years ago.
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True. But a bot could be useful for completely unanimous nominations with over a certain amount of comments. So if one person dissented, it didn't do it.
And perhaps a bot for relisting non-unanimous nominations that haven't reached a certain number of editors who have commented.
Just a thought.