Different kind of votings (Re: Taking a step back)

[wren romano]

On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 4:02 PM, Gershom B <gershomb at gmail.com> wrote:
> On November 6, 2015 at 10:49:14 PM, wren romano (wren at community.haskell.org) wrote:
>> The real problem is the growing divide in the community between the
>> "liberals" vs the "conservatives". We could define these groups as
>> those who're willing to break things vs want more stability, or as
>> those who embrace polymorphism vs those who want to minimize mental
>> type inference, or a few other ways I'm sure. How exactly we define
>> the groups doesn't much matter imo; the point is: there are two groups
>> which are growing ever more divergent from one another.
>
> I think that a “two groups” model of the disputes we’ve had lately simplifies too much, and in fact runs the risk of tending to force a bunch of varying motives and concerns into only two buckets, which I worry will increase the contentiousness of discussions rather help to moderate things.

Oh, I totally agree. My point wasn't about the number of groups, nor
about their organizing concerns; which I'd hoped to make clear by the
last sentence quoted above.

No, my point was that there is (at least one) rift in the community,
that this rift is growing, that the real issue at hand is how we —as a
community— should respond to that rift, and —perhaps most importantly
to the current thread— that changing the procedures of collective
decision making will not have an effective impact on that rift since
the organizing concerns of the rift (whatever they may be) are not
about issues of democratic control and representation but rather about
issues of communal identity and mores.

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Live well,
~wren