[Noisebridge-discuss] You and your pretty little Consensus Process too.

[Griffin Boyce]

The unspoken question is whether one prefers something to be fast initially
or to be done correctly to save time long-term.  Which is more efficient?
It depends on who you ask.  The way I pose the efficiency question is a bit
of a false dichotomy, there are huge grey areas there, but it frequently
works out IME as all one or all the other.

It's easyish to come to a decision if you are only polling, say, a board of
directors or a select group of members.  But that creates friction,
decreases morale, etc. I've seen quite a few un-excellent endings in the
volunteer/non-profit arena because of that sort of process.  I like the
equality of NB's processes, it's probably the big thing that has been
drawing me to it lately.

~Griffin

-- 
Be the change you want to see in the world.
~Mahatma Gandhi

On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 5:53 PM, Moxie Marlinspike <moxie at thoughtcrime.org>wrote:

>
> In the end, though, you're probably correct if you're suggesting that
> authoritarian decision making processes are faster.
>
> - moxie
>
> --
> http://www.thoughtcrime.org
>
> On 02/06/2011 01:30 PM, Molly Bee wrote:
> >
> > Hullo Noisies,
> >
> > I was puttering about in my mean menial existence far, far away when
> > my thoughts turned to NB, as they so often do, and I got to wondering
> > about your mystical consensus process.
> >
> > It doesn't seem like it scales well.
>
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