On 29/06/07, Tony Sidaway <tonysidaway(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 6/29/07, Zoney <zoney.ie(a)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
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