Making decisions

[Tyson Whitehead]

On May 29, 2013 01:42:43 wren ng thornton wrote:
> On 5/25/13 10:19 AM, Ryan Newton wrote:
> > I'm a refugee from Scheme-istan.  Most important to me are not the
> > specific technical outcomes, but that a sense of community cohesiveness
> > survives, avoiding, for example the post-R6RS affair (divergent R7Rs,
> > Racket split).
> 
> I'm not a Schemer, but I definitely sympathize. FWIW, I've always
> considered the +1/-1 posts to be more along the lines of reddit; i.e., I
> dis-/like this proposal but don't have anything substantial to add.
> However, more recently, the +1/-1 posts have tended to come across as
> something more like "voting" ...which, as others have mentioned, is
> problematic at best.

Maybe you need more of reddit, where individual comments can accumulate +/-.  
This way the important points won't get lost in the noise, and at the end of 
the day you have a bit of a summary of the major points.

Cheers!  -Tyson