On 4/11/07, Dycedarg darthvader1219@gmail.com wrote:
I don't favor any side. I don't even participate on RFA regularly. What I'm trying to do is get some idea of what exactly RFA is, as opposed to what people say it is. Is it a vote or isn't it? Are people supposed to substantiate their opinions or not? If it's a vote then stop discounting oppose votes because of their stated opinions and come up with a hard number for passing and stick with it. If it's a discussion to determine consensus then start discounting useless support votes. As it is, it seems closer to a vote, with the occasional "interpretation of consensus" to justify controversial decisions.
The reason that they don't discount useless support votes is because the main purpose of RfA is to see whether we trust the user in question with the tools. The default option is "support", but you must have a good reason to oppose.
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