On 20/07/05, Ben <bratsche1(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Larger attempts at voting, such as the Manual of
Styles vote over the use of
styles, and the whole mess of GNAA show that there is a huge trend going
towards voting. Consensus always seems like an abstract idea to many, not
easily defineable and up to individual judgements. Voting, it seems, is more
clear cut; majority wins, and no one has to decide which side has the
advantage.
A suggestion could be that the idea of consensus be more easily defined and
propagated.
The WP policy page on consensus isn't bad:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Consensus
I suggest creating more "this poll is lame" sections in, er, lame
polls, and then linking to WP:CON and meta:Polls are evil.
Dan