--- David Gerard fun@thingy.apana.org.au wrote:
Democracy is one of those things Wikipedia isn't, and voting remains stupid as well as evil. Anything that's ever been prematurely forced through to a poll was probably a bad idea. If it
wasn't a bad idea,
decree was probably the right way to do it.
"WINA D" - true, and for good reason. But such 'good reason' should (and [by decree] always will) be open to comment. To negate consensus (~democracy) is to negate Openness, and to denounce a mere comment == standing up for the [[Nupedia|Closed Model]].
"Voting is evil." Though Im just a dumb American, I understand perfectly well how familiarly quasi-aristocratic institutionalism might rub some people the right way.
"Voting is stupid." Granting the benefit of the doubt, you must not be referring to voting as an idealised practice or concept, but to the crude wiki application of "voting." There's a special page setup for that. I think it should be used much more often. Though I will grant you that fine tuning such a beast requires starting with some decisive baseline.
Any other overly generalistic denouncements of open (as opposed to closed) consensus?
- s. there is a crack in everything.
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