On 29/06/07, Tony Sidaway tonysidaway@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/29/07, Zoney zoney.ie@gmail.com wrote:
My problem is that perpetuating the lie that decision-making on
Wikipedia is
by consensus, we don't strictly adhere to any other decision-making form
(
e.g. majority voting). In consequence, decisions are "whatever people
can
get away with".
I think that's a cynical way of putting it. Decisions are more likely closer to "whatever offends the least number of people". This is sometimes less than optimal--I could give my list of things I think are poor decisions and you could probably give yours. The result is that nobody is ecstatic but we have something we can move ahead with.
That's a less cynical and fairer way of putting it, and probably closer to the truth, but it still shouldn't be described as doing things by consensus.
Zoney