[Wikimedia-l] [tangential] Why voting is evil

[Fred Bauder]

> Rick Falkvinge has been writing a book, "Swarmwise", on how the Pirate
> Party organised. He's been posting it a chapter at a time to his blog.
>
> You know how Wikipedia/Wikimedia has (or had) the meme that "voting is
> evil"? This sets out why.
>
>    http://falkvinge.net/2013/07/01/swarmwise-the-tactical-manual-to-changing-the-world-chapter-six/
>
> tl;dr: voting creates winners and losers, and losers are unhappy and
> disengage.
>
>
> - d.

And what is the difference when any Wikipedian with good sense avoids
participation in any policy discussion unless there is massive consensus.
Practical experience with anarchic decision-making shows that aggressive
idiots rule.

Fred