Bridget [name omitted for privacy reasons] wrote:
Now, Im not calling Jimbo racist, if he was racist this would be kkkpedia.com. But he is totalitarian, and can't possibly deny that without denying his stance on voting and banning.
My stance on voting is totalitarian?
I am generally opposed to voting precisely because of its inherently authoritarian nature -- a majority imposes its will on the minority.
One of the problems I foresee with any implementation of a voting system is that it will lead us to seek solutions that garner majority support, which is significantly less representative than the "wiki way" of seeking solutions that garner _nearly unanimous_ support.
The wiki way encourages us all to be creative and tolerant, to look for ways to mutually benefit each other. The voting ways encourages us to seek power blocs, and to stop negotiating for improvement as soon as a majority is found.
Voting is a cruel kludge which may someday become necessary if thoughtful, rational, co-operative wiki-style consensus-building fails.
If that's totalitarian, well...
Having said that, I do think that it would be better if people did not launch personal attacks on Lir. It only complicates thing, you see. What we are trying hard to do is create a culture in which Usenet-style arguing is not the norm.
--Jimbo