[Haskell-community] Is it reasonable to poll the community on this ML?

[Adam Bergmark]

> And if we are to choose one medium -- repeating points made on reddit

As far as I know it is not allowed to use voting like this on Reddit

On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 5:39 PM, Kosyrev Serge <skosyrev at ptsecurity.com>
wrote:

> Gershom B writes:
> >> I might understand the concern about archiving, but haskell-cafe
> >> solves that. And "the committee can't be expected to follow
> >> discussions" and "is empowered to act" does sound like "the committee
> >> can't be expected to listen to the community”.
>
> Technical issues ought to be decided on their technical substance,
> not through popularity contests, aren't they?
>
> > It means that committee members should be expected to chase all over
> > social media and sort through lots of poor signal/noise ratio to find
> > potentially relevant discussions at all times. Rather, it is better to
> > centralize these things to the extent possible.That’s all.
>
> Requiring the committee to maintain quality discussion across a spectrum of
> $RANDOM_MEDIA_OF_THE_DAY sounds like punishment to me, indeed.
>
> And if we are to choose one medium -- repeating points made on reddit:
>
> > There is a number of reasons to prefer mailing lists to the more
> > ephemeral mediums. Those immediately coming to mind are:
> >
> >  - slower pacing positively affects elaboration of thought
> >  - real names nudge towards responsibility
> >  - well-tuned tools to deal with long, complex conversations
> >  - a non-ephemeral paper-trail that can be dealt with at one's own pace
> >  - absence of distracting noise like "thumbs up" buttons
>
> --
> с уважениeм / respectfully / Z poważaniem,
> Косырев Сергей
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