[Noisebridge-discuss] Consensus and the "old ways".

[quinn]

On Fri, 2 Oct 2009 09:29:58 -0700, Al Billings <albill at openbuddha.com>
wrote:
> On Oct 2, 2009, at 9:25 AM, jim wrote:
> 
>>  i really don't like "majority rules".
> 
> Why? Everyone gets an equal say? If every member has a vote,  
> especially in a group like Noisebridge, how does a majority vote hurt  
> people over consensus?

i suspect a lot of us at nb that like consensus are the kind of people that
keep getting lynched in happy democracies. and nothing makes a democracy as
happy as a good lynchin'. 

democracies do scale above 100 people, but almost exclusively by the
mechanism of fucking some minority voice. that's why they need so many
goddamned rules.