So you prefer meetings run by the "privileged" in the steering committee or leadership?
You criticisms are a misrepresentation of consensus-based meetings.
> I don't agree that informal expressions of approval from the audience are
> oppressive of minorities, in organising meetings or anywhere else -- or at
> any rate, no more oppressive than the fact of being in a minority is anyway.
>
> If you're organising, you want to get good ideas promoted as quickly and
> painlessly as possible (and bad ideas squashed; what's the inverse of
> twinkling, if there is one?)
Yes, we want to get good ideas promoted, but what's the hurry? Consensus decision-making, when used properly, is the best method of weeding out bad ideas. It may not be fast, but I would take quality over hastiness any day of the week.
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