On 6/6/07, Chris Howie <cdhowie(a)nerdshack.com> wrote:
^demon really needs to be tapped with the
clue-by-four. There are honest
mistakes, and then there's willful ignorance coupled with [[WP:IDONTLIKEIT]].
I'm going to AGF and assume it's an honest mistake.
What I find concerning here is that, according to Sj's timeline:
"May 31 : ^demon speedily closes a deletion review about BJAODN, with
"Closing this early. First and foremost, DRV is now based on strength
of arguments, rather than vote-counting. The basic strength of the
argument in regards to BJAODN being a GFDL violation is a simple fact
and there is no way to refute it."
This appears to be yet another example of an attempt to "snowball" a
discussion where reasonable people can very much disagree. Voting on
everything is one extreme that we all agree we want to avoid. Letting
a small core of users decide on a whim what they like or what they
don't like is equally bad policy. Process does not necessarily mean
"voting", but certainly it includes giving people an opportunity to
examine & make arguments.
Killing process whenever one side feels that they are absolutely,
certainly, 100% correct, does not work. For in almost any debate,
there will be a subset of people who feel that way about their own
opinions.
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