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