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

Crutcher Dunnavant crutcher at gmail.com
Fri Oct 2 17:37:23 UTC 2009


That is bullshit. Its a pure majority rule system. If you do something, and
the majority doesn't like it, they can and will just tear it down. Nothing,
absolutely nothing is exempt from the majority's whims. The whole point of a
democracy is to protect the minority.

On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 10:33 AM, quinn <quinn at quinnnorton.com> wrote:

> 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.
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