On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 06:34:32PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > A supermajority requirement is a requirement for a rough > consensus. By putting D ahead of the options you do not like, you > are effectively rejecting the possibility that that option could be a > valid solution to whatever we are voting for. Vetoing solutions is > not a great way to achieve consensus; but consensus is not something > that can be forced. Part of the point of this sub-thread is to determine whether or not there is an effective veto power available to a much smaller minority of the voters than was intended even by our supermajority requirements. Hence "(Or: How You and Five of Your Friends Can Kill Any GR)". -- G. Branden Robinson | Lowery's Law: Debian GNU/Linux | If it jams -- force it. If it branden@debian.org | breaks, it needed replacing anyway. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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