[WikiEN-l] More quotes from AfD

Mon Jun 19 16:57:01 UTC 2006

>Stephen Bain wrote:
>I agree. People have been saying it is broken for as long as I've been
>here and it seems to work ok.

Talk to people who don't want anything deleted from Wikipedia, and AFD
is marvellous because it is wide open to abuse by them, despite the empty
rhetoric about it not really being a vote.

The problem is, I think, that lots of people who comment here don't actually
take part in AFD.
They don't see the  day-to-day crap... they just see a system that keeps
struggling along
despite being hopelessly broken and unscalable. AFD is such a demented
system that
it's very often less hassle to just ignore rubbish than even try to get it
deleted. No doubt
certain inclusionist factions on Wikipedia rather like things that way, and
claim it is a
self-regulating mechanism rather than a system that cannot cope and which
people
avoid.