--- David Gerard <fun(a)thingy.apana.org.au> wrote:
Democracy is one of those things Wikipedia isn't,
and voting remains
stupid as well as evil. Anything that's ever been
prematurely forced
through to a poll was probably a bad idea. If it
wasn't a bad idea,
decree was probably the right way to do it.
"WINA
D" - true, and for good reason. But such 'good reason'
should (and [by decree] always will) be open to
comment. To negate consensus (~democracy) is to negate
Openness, and to denounce a mere comment == standing
up for the [[Nupedia|Closed Model]].
"Voting is evil." Though Im just a dumb American, I
understand perfectly well how familiarly
quasi-aristocratic institutionalism might rub some
people the right way.
"Voting is stupid." Granting the benefit of the doubt,
you must not be referring to voting as an idealised
practice or concept, but to the crude wiki application
of "voting." There's a special page setup for that. I
think it should be used much more often. Though I will
grant you that fine tuning such a beast requires
starting with some decisive baseline.
Any other overly generalistic denouncements of open
(as opposed to closed) consensus?
- s.
there is a crack in everything.
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