[WikiEN-l] Consensus vs "groupthink"

[Guy Chapman aka JzG]

On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 19:09:27 -0500, "Ron Ritzman" <ritzman at gmail.com>
wrote:

>Seeing how a few detractors here have been throwing around the term
>"groupthink" I have to ask, is there any real difference between the
>two or does it depend on which side of a "consensus" decision you are
>on? That is, if an article you wrote/are involved with survives AFD,
>then it's "consensus", if it gets deleted, it's "groupthink". Of
>course it's the other way around if it's an article you don't like.

It's one of those irregular verbs: we are consensus, you are a baying
mob, they are groupthink.

Guy (JzG)
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