[WikiEN-l] Today's silly straw poll

[Sam Korn]

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com> wrote:
> That is a strange straw poll. I would probably oppose it myself, since
> despite the infrequent furor there seems to be little need for it. The
> strange part is that a few people see no consensus, and so vote oppose (in
> the poll to determine consensus) even though they support the proposal. Does
> that strike anyone else as illogical?

Not entirely.  It is entirely reasonable to say "I don't support this
proposal while there are outstanding objections that could be dealt
with".

I'm not convinced that is what people are saying, but that would be a
good reason to oppose.  (Not that there aren't other reasons...)

-- 
Sam
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