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 #Decision-making
 
-There are at least two popular aproaches:
-* Do-ocracy is an organizational way where every individual chooses own role and/or task and does it autonomously or in a team. But accontability sticks to actor who implement task/role but not who is officially assigned. 
-  * The main advantages of this approach: big motivation and rapid implementation. 
-  * Disadvantages are burn out of team core.
-* Consensus is an organizational approach where decisions are made by agreement of a whole group of actors. 
-  * Benefits are sustainibility and deep understanding tack and roles by each member of collective. 
-  * Drawbacks: Very time consuming and not flexible. 
+There are several popular approaches to decision-making, some of which are detailed here:
+* Do-ocracy is an organizational methodology where each individual chooses his/her own role and/or task and does it autonomously or in a team. In this model, accountability sticks to the actor who implements a task/role, not who is officially assigned.
+  * Advantages:
+    * Fosters a culture of participation and motivates community members to take on responsibilities for the good of the group.
+    * Can lead to much more rapid implementation, as there is little in the way of process to curtail progress on tasks.
+    * Allows those who want to accomplish something to simply start working toward their goals.
+  * Disadvantages:
+    * Burnout of team core, especially when people volunteer for too many jobs/tasks.
+    * If some key contributors volunteer for a large portion of the tasks, they may begin to resent others for not contributing as much.
+    * Some may volunteer to perform a task without the required expertise to complete it, yet there may be no mechanism for taking the volunteer off that self-assigned task.
+* Consensus is an organizational approach where decisions are made by the unanimous agreement of a whole group of actors.
+  * Advantages:
+    * Reduces social hierarchy, as all members' votes are required to progress forward.
+    * Increases participation by all members of a group.
+    * Imposes a natural limit on risky or controversial changes.
+    * Prevents minority viewpoints within a group from being overrun.
+  * Disadvantages:
+    * Extremely time-consuming, as a single dissenter can prevent forward progress.
+    * Difficult to overturn previously-made decisions as members who espoused those ideas initially may be unwilling to recant.
+    * Can cause social pressure on all participants to reach quicker decisions, paradoxically resulting in some groups speeding too quickly toward decision-making.
+* Parliamentary Procedure is a highly organized system of decision-making, governed by a fixed set of rules (such as Robert's Rules of Order).
+  * Advantages:
+    * Highly structured set of rules governs discussion, preventing personal attacks and the like from becoming commonplace, and reducing ambiguity.
+    * Generally requires a quorum of members present, to prevent the risk of a clandestine meeting held to push through a small group's agenda.
+    * Majority voting provides a clear, objective way to measure when a decision has been reached when a question is called to a vote.
+  * Disadvantages:
+    * Minority viewpoints can be overridden by votes, leading to a situation where an unscrupulous majority group could seize complete control over the body.
+    * Discussion can become interrupted by the process moving too quickly to a vote.
+    * People may feel less personally invested in the outcome from the other two systems (especially where they voted against the decision that was reached).
 
-**Option: The better way is to combine the methods.
 
 ##References
 * https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do-ocracy
 * https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus
+* http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/ConsensusDecisionMaking
+* https://communitywiki.org/wiki/ParliamentaryProcedure