Twinkling

[P.J.Wells at open.ac.uk]

I agree with Nathan that a lot of the hippy-dippy stuff against rules of
procedure, etc., is just a covert way of giving power to the overbearing and
privileged.

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?) 

Julian