[WikiEN-l] RFC

[Ray Saintonge]

Steve Summit wrote:

>Thomas Dalton wrote:
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>>Guy Chapman wrote:
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>>>Um, actually, most people have simply given up the fighting.
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>>That's pretty much how consensus based decision making is meant to
>>work. You keep arguing until one side stops, either because they're
>>convinced by the others arguments, they've reached an acceptable
>>compromise, or they simply don't think it's important enough to worry
>>about.
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>"Is meant to work", or, "ends up working in practice"?
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>The problem, of course, is that you can end up with decisions
>biased pretty heavily towards people with obsessive personalities
>and waaaaaaay too much time on their hands.
>
Exactly.  Then what you have is not consensus but a form of bullying.  
True consensus comes from finding a position that all will agree to on 
the merits of the situation, not from wearing down opponents into 
exhaustion  If people abandon an issue it may just be that they don't 
have the energy to deal with the POV pushers.

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