[WikiEN-l] Bus Uncle

[Ray Saintonge]

Thomas Dalton wrote:

>>>Three people saying they like an article *and no-one saying they
>>>don't* is consensus.
>>>      
>>>
>>It's consensus among those three people, maybe, but it's hardly an
>>established consensus among Wikipedians.
>>    
>>
>No, you haven't understood my point. It's a consensus among those
>three people AND everyone that read the page and decided there was no
>need to comment, which is probably much larger than just 3 people.
>
That sounds like consensus by attrition.  The notion that silence is 
consent is not a very sound principle on which to build consensus.  Some 
people pick their battles, and wait until they're really pissed off 
before jumping in.

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