[Foundation-l] Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikinews

[Daniel Mayer]

--- Anthere <anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> ...
> Launching a new projet is something extremely
> important. A voting bar set at 50% is something I find
> plain wrong.

I agree completely. 

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> Though it is too late for this time, I would be very
> glad if next time a project is proposed, a more
> consensual procedure is adopted. And at least
> possibility to agree on some points, and refuse
> others.

Yes, we need to develop procedures for this type of thing. We also need to
build-in ways to help develop consensus and measure the level of
support/dissent. Approval voting would help with that. 
 
> I know that in any decision the global community will
> adopt, there will be some happy and some unhappy
> people, and this is also why, though we must sometimes
> rely on voting procedure because of community size, I
> see voting as a bad choice. In such a vote, with a 50%
> barrier, that mean a project may be lauched with as
> much as 49 people very unhappy among 100. I do not see
> that as a positive move *at all*.

Exactly. 

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)


		
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