[WikiEN-l] Re: AFD only doesn't scale for people who want to vote on all listed articles.

Tue Sep 20 22:48:42 UTC 2005

> From: MacGyverMagic/Mgm <macgyvermagic at gmail.com>
> AFD only doesn't scale for people who want to vote on all listed  
> articles.
> Only vote for articles that need the votes and to ones where you can
> add something to the discussion.

This is pretty much what I do. My interest in AfD waxes and wanes,  
but if I look at AfD at all, you may take it as given that I have  
glanced at every discussion for an entire day. I probably participate  
in less than one in ten.

*I don't participate if there is already obvious consensus and it's  
clear which way the discussion will go. (But if it's important to me  
I will put it on my watchlist).

*I don't participate if I truly am indifferent to the outcome of the  
particular nomination.

*I don't participate if I am not in a position to make an informed  
judgement, _and_ the subject is of so little interest to me that I  
can't spare ten minutes to start to educate myself about it.

*I _do_ participate if it's something that is _almost_ a speedy and  
there are only a couple of votes there already. (FIRST POST!!!!)

*I _do_ participate if I'm aware of possessing some relevant fact  
about the article or topic that has not already been mentioned by  
another participant.

*I _do_ participate if I click on the article and it makes a very  
different impression on me than it made on the nominator.

*I _do_ participate if the article arouses my curiosity. (I enjoy  
improving/rewriting/"rescuing" AfD's _if it's a topic that happens to  
pique my interest_.)

*I'm afraid that I _do_ participate if I see a number of "votes" that  
give no rationale, or a bad rationale. These are probably my least  
useful comments.

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