[WikiEN-l] Re: Afd "votes" with no real reasons given

Fri Sep 16 07:24:31 UTC 2005

On 9/16/05, Ryan Delaney <ryan.delaney at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/15/05, Tony Sidaway <f.crdfa at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I meant to respond to Ryan on this. As a AfD closer, I do expect all
> > participants in the debate to spend a few minutes, or whatever it takes,
> > reading the article, and then read the other comments in the debate, and
> > have a bit of a poke around the subject, possibly look at the article
> > history. If they're not doing at least the first two of those, they're not
> > making an informed comment. If I see them write a few words in the context
> > of the debate, I'm happier that there has been an informed discussion.
> 
> 
> I don't think it's your business to decide what is and isn't an "informed
> decision". The person casting the vote thought their decision was informed
> enough or they wouldn't be voting. If you think someone isn't well informed,
> you inform them. You don't just discard their votes without comment.
> 
> - Ryan
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No one said anything about the votes being discarded. He merely
informed us he checks whether people are being mindless sheep in their
voting, which in my opinion is a good thing. When people say "All X
deserve an article", they obviously didn't read the article. They'd be
basing their vote of the subject rather than the article itself.