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Wrestitaway wrote

I’ve used consensus on and off for a quarter century when organizing and there’s never been anything that’s analogous to Internet forums trying to implement such a system. Online versions always fail. Largely because you can’t readily see who is attempting to act in good faith. Which bad faith actors exploit.

You can’t stop evil people from organizing using such a system. But you can’t stop them from organizing inside of any system.

Typically, those concerned with maintaining power imbalances wouldn’t use consensus because its not in their interest to do so. They wouldn’t do it unless they knew everyone was already on board. And at that point, it’s moot.

Everybody in that subreddit knows implicitly that the majority will attack minority positions. The whole reason why that sub exists is due to most of them being kicked out of other subs for being jerks.

Half of organizing itself is trying to prevent harm caused by people like them.

You simply have to out organize them, forever.

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