G'day Blackcap,
On 12/10/05, MacGyverMagic/Mgm macgyvermagic@gmail.com wrote:
A lot of the poisonous feelings on AFD seems to come from sheep voting and people voting without providing rationales. Perhaps we should improve the debate-percentage and require people to provide rationales.
One of the things that's often bothered me is people voting, not without reasons, but with illogical/irrelevant reasons and knowing that they're still being counted as a "delete" or "keep" vote (e.g. the notorious RFA vote which said, "I oppose because I don't like X who supported"). That one's more frustrating to me that anything else: the voter's immunity to reason. "My vote's just as good as yours and I refuse to change it, regardless to any decent information you may put forth."
Such votes should not be counted, and as far as I'm aware generally are not counted (if I'm wrong, you can expect to see my newly-adminified arse on Deletion Review rather a lot over the coming months). WP:NOT a democracy, AFD:NOT a vote.