[WikiEN-l] RFC

Sun Dec 31 17:03:28 UTC 2006

Thomas Dalton wrote:
>Guy Chapman wrote:
>> Um, actually, most people have simply given up the fighting.
>
> That's pretty much how consensus based decision making is meant to
> work. You keep arguing until one side stops, either because they're
> convinced by the others arguments, they've reached an acceptable
> compromise, or they simply don't think it's important enough to worry
> about.

"Is meant to work", or, "ends up working in practice"?

The problem, of course, is that you can end up with decisions
biased pretty heavily towards people with obsessive personalities
and waaaaaaay too much time on their hands.