Board Thread:Community Discussions/@comment-6218837-20150429175435/@comment-238068-20150430210810

Keplers wrote: CJC95 wrote: No democracy has every left "everyone satisfied", and its really not the purpose of democracy. If you want to please everyone you please no one. I can't see a reason for you to post this other than to cause argument, but:

The purpose of the democracy is to satisfy the majority of people. This is a "tally democracy." As you can tell from the "friendly democracy" conveniently right above it, that form is designed to compromise and discuss matters to leave everyone as satisfied as possible. I quoted that from "friendly democracy" - there is obviously a clear difference between keeping everyone happy and keeping a majority happy. To go line by line through:
 * "Called "friendly" because of its goal of making everyone satisfied through whatever means, this form of democracy involves community debate on issues" - making everyone satisfied through whatever means is not true
 * "The chief difference is that, in friendly democracy, users seek to resolve disagreements through debate until all users see the fair points and can agree, at least in part, with the decision made." - so if one user doesn't agree at all, you would not precede? No. "Oh, Steve doesn't want to do it, so even though everyone else does, we won't." Again this is a misuse of the term "all".
 * "If that fails, a compromise is usually created." - No, compromise is what you described in the previous sentence.
 * "Keep in mind that this works only if all community members are willing to sacrifice their opinion and consider other points and, is such, a terrible option in immature communities." - Mature communities aren't going to have 100% agreement, nor be some opinion free utopia. Again, this all works fine if you just accept that not all users will be happy.

Basically, your democracy paragraph should read:

"In a friendly democracy users discuss issues until a large majority of users agree on what decision to take, if necessary through compromise."