[Wikipedia-l] Voting versus consensus

[Tomasz Wegrzanowski]

On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 02:32:29AM +0300, Gutza wrote:
> Erik, a process works well if the result of that process is a good 
> thing. I mean, I could easily get from over 130 submissions down to 1 in 
> about 2 milliseconds by picking a random one. But what we wanted, or at 
> least what I think we wanted, was to pick the best logo, not just to 
> pick a logo from 130 proposals. Best looking, most usable, most 
> representative. Best. Logo. And we failed. It's not the best. And it's 
> not a logo. Sorry, the process not only didn't go well, it failed 
> miserably IMHO.

I fully agree with you. The result of this vote was disastrous,
the result of the previous vote was disastrous too. I hope that's the last
time we were deciding anything by vote.