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I'm not proposing mandatory voting, but you have to fix turnout somehow or just openly acknowledge that you're running on a non-democratic system.

> Second, the voters may not have been qualified; they did not use the site enough to be able to or care to select one moderator over another.

This is exactly the attitude I'm talking about. I think the dedicated core actually does believe this: that nothing is broken, it's okay that the outgroup doesn't vote because they'd just ruin things if they did.



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