Necro—I know. However, I’d be willing to bet that few current readers have seen it and we’re kind of hurting for new content, so it’s probably fine to mine the archives a bit.
That being said, I really enjoyed this article. It seems to check with my own experiences reasonably well and shed some new light on the subject (for me at least). I hadn’t really looked at the rack and stack of power to this level of detail nor considered closely where the power of voters really lies. It’s also one of the few places where there’s a good rational argument for why “Blue Team” “Green Team” is destructive (most of the other content on the site—including the fable of Green and Blue—seem to focus more heavily on the fact that it’s annoying when people act irrationally rather than discussing a specific situation where that irrationality is actually harming them).
Necro—I know. However, I’d be willing to bet that few current readers have seen it and we’re kind of hurting for new content, so it’s probably fine to mine the archives a bit.
That being said, I really enjoyed this article. It seems to check with my own experiences reasonably well and shed some new light on the subject (for me at least). I hadn’t really looked at the rack and stack of power to this level of detail nor considered closely where the power of voters really lies. It’s also one of the few places where there’s a good rational argument for why “Blue Team” “Green Team” is destructive (most of the other content on the site—including the fable of Green and Blue—seem to focus more heavily on the fact that it’s annoying when people act irrationally rather than discussing a specific situation where that irrationality is actually harming them).
Interesting stuff.