>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?)
Getting ideas approved? Isn't that what voting is for? Twinkling can be considered an informal straw poll mechanism but it has little process or recognition of minority votes. I wouldn't object to twinkling in the abstract if it wasn't tied to the resistance to basic rules of procedure in voting.
-- Nathan Newman