ByThePeople

(As of: 2007-07-29)

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 polling is about winning together or refusing to play the game. Because it can be a laborious process, it is most appropriate when a group of individuals must ly solve a problem that affects them all. It seeks to avoid voting for candidate options (see VotingIsEvil) when such a vote would generate winners and losers and thus divide the community that must support the result of the collective decision.
 * ''Consensus polling

Rather than a menu of candidates to choose from, the entire process is controlled by an evolving Yes/No vote. The vote reflects the suitability of a single community-owned solution being generated through a process of . All participants are free to change their vote at any time. A yes vote says "I believe the current articulation of our solution is good enough," a no vote says "I have concerns that haven't been adequately addressed by the current solution." Only when the Yes votes pass some very high, pre-specified threshold (e.g., 90%) can the solution proposed be considered to reflect the  of the .


 * ''Related wiki
 * ConsensusPolling — at http://wiki.ConsensusPolling.org
 * BeyondVoting — former Wikia site