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

[Jason Dagit]

On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 8:41 AM, Adam Bergmark <adam at bergmark.nl> wrote:

> > 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
>

I suppose the users of a subreddit (or equivalently thread) could agree to
use votes that way, but you are correct about the site-wide policy of
reddit. Votes are intended to give a sense of whether a comment (or thread)
is on topic and providing value to the discussion (or community).


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> On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 5:39 PM, Kosyrev Serge <skosyrev at ptsecurity.com>
> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> And if we are to choose one medium -- repeating points made on reddit:
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>> > 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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