On 8/23/06, Anthony wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
In the sense that if you vote on every single issue you wind up with...AfD...an enormous waste of time on the part of everyone.
I think the problem with AfD being a vote is more to do with the fact that interested parties can now begin "competing" to get "their way". I presume the idea originally was to use "consensus" to work out what the community really wanted for a given article. Sort of "hey Bill, should we keep this? Oh, I dunno, ask Mary" kind of thing. If no one has a stake, and no one is deliberately trying to "win", then it works.
As soon as people start voting "for" or "against" things - as opposed to simply having their opinion gauged - then the whole thing breaks down.
Steve