On 9/16/05, Ryan Delaney ryan.delaney@gmail.com wrote:
On 9/15/05, Tony Sidaway f.crdfa@gmail.com wrote:
I meant to respond to Ryan on this. As a AfD closer, I do expect all participants in the debate to spend a few minutes, or whatever it takes, reading the article, and then read the other comments in the debate, and have a bit of a poke around the subject, possibly look at the article history. If they're not doing at least the first two of those, they're not making an informed comment. If I see them write a few words in the context of the debate, I'm happier that there has been an informed discussion.
I don't think it's your business to decide what is and isn't an "informed decision". The person casting the vote thought their decision was informed enough or they wouldn't be voting. If you think someone isn't well informed, you inform them. You don't just discard their votes without comment.
- Ryan
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No one said anything about the votes being discarded. He merely informed us he checks whether people are being mindless sheep in their voting, which in my opinion is a good thing. When people say "All X deserve an article", they obviously didn't read the article. They'd be basing their vote of the subject rather than the article itself.