On 20/07/05, Ben bratsche1@gmail.com wrote:
Larger attempts at voting, such as the Manual of Styles vote over the use of styles, and the whole mess of GNAA show that there is a huge trend going towards voting. Consensus always seems like an abstract idea to many, not easily defineable and up to individual judgements. Voting, it seems, is more clear cut; majority wins, and no one has to decide which side has the advantage.
A suggestion could be that the idea of consensus be more easily defined and propagated.
The WP policy page on consensus isn't bad:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Consensus
I suggest creating more "this poll is lame" sections in, er, lame polls, and then linking to WP:CON and meta:Polls are evil.
Dan