On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 7:45 PM, James Livingston <doc...@mac.com> wrote: > > The problem isn't tied to a particular mechanism, it's a social > problem where we currently don't have any form if power structure,
This isn't a problem in itself. > and the one mechanism we have for choosing stuff (voting on the wiki) > isn't accepted by a whole bunch of people, and doesn't get the buy-in > it needs. Well, how about we solve this problem? For starters, go and vote! :P Seriously though - you said we need either "consensus or a dictator". Assuming you're not serious about the dictator, voting is a very established way of making decisions democratically. The method of decision making will not itself change /whether or not/ there is unanimous consensus. In the absence of consensus, voting is /the best/ democratic decision-making tool. You say it isn't accepted by a whole bunch of people - how about we fix that? _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk