> 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@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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