Jake39:
- How many have posted here compared to the number that will vote..? Not a good example to assume no one will vote for it!
Peer review is a better way to gauge interest,
Maybe . . . . How many typically vote in peer review? About 65, sometimes more, sometimes fewer.
But, that is not my point.
Let's say, for example, that out of the 65 there are 15 who really like it, and there are 50 who actually think that it is a bad category but vote for it because they think a lot of other people are in the parade. So, we end up with a category that really very few want but gets passed because people think that anything that gets put up for peer review should get a yea vote regardless of how they feel.
Jake39:
- If nobody wants it they would obviously vote against it! ... and if it passes just IGNORE IT!
Nobody has been asked to submit Waymarks to all Categories.
Again, NOT the point! Who said anything like that???
Should we vote for a category that we think is bad just because we can ignore it an not post waymarks in it? If that is the case, let's just do away with peer review all together and take any category that someone wants because, after all, we can ignore it . . . . I don't think that's what you intend, but that's where your line of reasoning leads.
I reject the notion that we have to park our opinions and sensibilities at the door when we undertake peer review. Objectivity doesn't mean that we can't make a reasoned judgment on what we think makes a good category and what doesn't.
It is not the subject itself that I find lacking, but the inability of the subject to satisfy the criteria. That is also a judgment - one with which we may disagree. But, don't say everyone has to vote for it just because they don't have to play with it.