Board Thread:Administrator's noticeboard/@comment-33628828-20121014185002/@comment-1445357-20121015172802

Ajraddatz wrote: If bureaucrats have just been counting up the numbers on both sides, then they've been doing something wrong. It has been previously established that what people say also matters, to some extent. While that is true, if let's say we have two or three very chatty people on someone's rights request thread, you'd look through the thread and can't immediately tell if there's consensus to begin with because of all the noise. Whereas, the former system, at a glance, all you needed to look at were the number of bullets in each section to see if there was a general agreement.