On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 04:58:27AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > Nononononono. Please, not this again. > > There are two issues here. One is to work out direction most people want > to go in. The other is to make sure we don't make fundamental changes > to ourselves with signficant dissent.
There are more than two issues involved here. However, you are correct that those are two of the issues. > The issues are utterly separate. Just because people mildly prefer one > direction over another doesn't mean they're actually unhappy with that > other direction. That's fine, as far as it goes. > > I'm not sure I agree. In this case, D would have been the default option: > > further discussion. I imagine that, if this situation were to arise, > > further discussion would be a good idea. [Why do so many people prefer > > who prefer T over D also prefer D over S when so many other people prefer > > S over T?] > > Because S is highly controversial, whereas T is generally acceptable. Ok. What do you think of the idea of repeatedly re-using the votes with supermajority and default swapped, after adopting an option with supermajority, until the result stops changing? Thanks, -- Raul
