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

On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 8:41 AM, Adam Bergmark wrote:

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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).

On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 5:39 PM, Kosyrev Serge wrote:

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Gershom B writes:

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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?

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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:

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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

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