[WikiEN-l] Your Wikimania presentation ("Does Consensus Scale?")
Anthony
wikilegal at inbox.org
Wed Aug 23 21:28:36 UTC 2006
On 8/23/06, Anthony <wikilegal at inbox.org> wrote:
> On 8/23/06, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 8/23/06, Anthony <wikilegal at inbox.org> wrote:
> > > Now I'm confused. Voting definitely doesn't scale. But was Kelly
> > > suggesting that the fact that voting doesn't scale has something to do
> > > with a claim that consensus decision making doesn't scale?
> >
> > Voting doesn't scale? In the sense that you get a bad result, or what?
> > Now *I*'m confused. :)
> >
> In the sense that if you vote on every single issue you wind up
> with...AfD...an enormous waste of time on the part of everyone.
>
See [[Direct democracy#Arguments against direct democracy]],
especially "Scale. Direct democracy works extremely well on a small
system."
Anthony
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