The question is: What is The Bit of Wikipedia Formerly Known as AfD designed to do? Is it to get articles that you don't like deleted? Or is it to seperate the chaff from the grain?
It's to give an air of legitimacy to the deletion of articles which a large portion of Wikipedia don't feel should be deleted. Don't like that X was deleted? You should have voted to keep it. Don't have time to vote keep on hundreds of articles a month even though you think they should be kept? Tough luck. You do have time to vote on hundreds of articles a month? Then expect to be banned from voting just like I was. Don't even bother asking for a reconsideration. No, a mighty quorum of 7 out of the 450,000 Wikipedians have spoken, and 5 out of those 7 wanted it deleted. That's right, 5 out of 450,000 - a consensus!
Anthony