Just because a body is large does not mean that decisions will be bad. Are you saying that the community is too stupid to govern itself? ----- Original Message ---- From: Jesse Plamondon-Willard <pathoschild(a)gmail.com> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2008 10:07:35 PM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Community Assembly Geoffrey Plourde <geo.plrd(a)yahoo.com> wrote: If it would make you happier, the consensus provision can be changed to a 60% majority. We can rarely achieve a 60% majority consensus for most issues on this list, and its membership is smaller than that of an all-inclusive assembly. Depending on voting also makes numerical superiority more important than meaningful debate, so that a cultural or special-interest minority (likely including en-Wikipedia) would dominate the community through the assembly using numerical superiority. Reaching many bad decisions due to poor representation is worse than reaching few good decisions. -- Yours cordially, Jesse Plamondon-Willard (Pathoschild) _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Just because a body is large does not mean that decisions will be bad.

Are you saying that the community is too stupid to govern itself?