[WikiEN-l] The userbox fad

[Philip Sandifer]

When last I checked, voting in general was against the rules.  
Wikipedia is not a democracy, and never has been - it has always been  
run based on the endpoints of reasoned discussions of the issues  
among editors who are committed to Wikipedia's core issues. The  
problem is that these discussions are being increasingly railroaded  
by loud blocs of people who have realized that a poll takes less  
time, and that when people assume good faith it's easy to get away  
with a lot of shouting without being shut down, such that when  
anybody does finally decide to pull the plug there's an uproar. I  
looked at Kelly's RfC today, and was floored to see it describing the  
percentage vote for censure so far. First of all, RfCs are not votes,  
second of all, they are not votes for some motion of censure, third  
of all, what the fuck?

This is a systemic failure of the system. The first step in fixing it  
is to very explicitly clarify how we work. The second step is to  
expend the effort to actually work that way.

-Phil

On Jan 3, 2006, at 7:30 PM, Tony Sidaway wrote:

> On 1/3/06, Fastfission <fastfission at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 2. Bloc voting. Is this against the rules?
>
> Yes, of course it is.  Good grief!
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