[WikiEN-l] Your Wikimania presentation ("Does Consensus Scale?")

[gil penchina]

Again - I am not the expert - but it was a question of whether consensus 
(defined as everyone has to agree) vs majority vote was the best answer.

Gil


Anthony wrote:
> On 8/23/06, gil penchina <gil at wikia.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hmm.  tough one.
>>
>> I do think there was general perception that TRUE consensus does not
>> scale as too many people get involved, and that as a result two bad
>> things happen:
>> 1.  Some votes get held hostage by a single bad actor
>> 2.  Some people are afraid to voice disagreement in fear of upsetting
>> the consensus
>>
>> I walked away thinking that Kelly's best way to prove this, is to show
>> analytically the average time to get a vote, and the % of votes being
>> approved - and see if the data proves that as the number of people with
>> a vote increases, the time to decisions slows to a crawl, and more and
>> more decisions never happen.
>>
>> If true- it would be pretty compelling.  No one in the room seemed to
>> have a religious belief that 100% AYE votes were per-se the right answer
>>
>> Gil
>> Gil at wikia.com
> 
> 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?
> 
> Anthony
>