On 28/06/13 05:52, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Thursday, June 27, 2013 13:47:53 Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Thursday, 27 June 2013 at 06:59:49 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
But if we make a design decision that favors 1% of our userbase
I really think we all need to be more careful about these kinds
of statements. I often see posts on the newsgroup where someone
says "feature/function X is totally useless".... and it is
something I actually use.
In this thread, there's I think three people who said the extra
arguments are a good thing (myself, Andrei, and Peter). And
there's what, maybe a dozen participants in the thread (I didn't
count, I think it is less though)?
That's not a big enough sample to be statistically significant,
but what are the odds that this thread is so skewed that only 1%
of D's userbase feels this way, when 25% of the thread disagrees?
I wasn't arguing that only 1% of the users care about this particular feature.
What I was objecting to was that Andrei seemed to think that argumentum ad
populum was an invalid argument,
Plato would agree with Andrei.
Peter
