[WikiEN-l] "Consensus"and decision making on Wikipedia

[Daniel R. Tobias]

On 28 Jun 2007 at 18:41, "The Mangoe" <the.mangoe at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 6/28/07, Ken Arromdee <arromdee at rahul.net> wrote:
> > This is easy to game.  Just find a situation where dropping the work of the
> > hundreds of people is easy, but restoring it is orders of magnitude more
> > difficult.  Drop their work and then claim a new "consensus" because it
> > isn't restored.
> 
> ... as for instance mass erasures of links to a particular site?

That works best when you're an admin.  Then you can threaten to block 
anybody who restores the links... then, once everybody has either 
backed off out of fear, or been blocked, you and your friends can say 
that there's "consensus" to not link to the site in question, and use 
this "fact" in future policy debates.


-- 
== Dan ==
Dan's Mail Format Site: http://mailformat.dan.info/
Dan's Web Tips: http://webtips.dan.info/
Dan's Domain Site: http://domains.dan.info/