Board Thread:Wiki discussion/@comment-1990160-20130325231534/@comment-4593717-20130326145023

NeonSpotlight wrote: The form of majority consensus voting that happens when we use a kudos systems is wrong in my eyes and always has been. Discussions should be about, gasp, discussion; not which side has the most "likes." Their votes via the kudos system were, for the most part, useless and uncounted anyway.

The "likes" that you're talking down to are the opinions of the community. The problem with our proposals and discussions is that we often don't have a definitive answer, therefore the outcome of the discussion is frequently open-ended. We rely on votes to make our decisions, because when it comes down to a matter of opinion, there is no right or wrong answer. Majority opinion is really the only FAIR way to do things. It may not necessarily always be the best for the Wiki, however, this is irrelevant, as this is a community page and we pander to the desires of the ENTIRE community, and not just to our respected users, mods, and admins, which, if we had it your way of the "correct" opinions being chosen, those would be the opinions that were always chosen.