Aaron Bannert wrote:
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 08:52:35PM +0000, Jules Gosnell wrote:
If you read/quoted the full context of my posting :
"If people feel the need to discuss these issues all over again, perhaps we should spawn another thread - or better perhaps a Wiki page (If one does not already exist). "
you would, perhaps, notice that I had no intention of censoring anyone. In fact I am quite open to further discussion on the subject. The VOTE thread is a VOTE thread and will become quite indecipherable and useless if it contains more noise than signal.
if we want to discuss all this stuff again it should be somewhere other than the VOTE thread - either this digression thread or the wiki.
-1 to having discussions on a Wiki.
If you don't like Wikis - fine - neither do I.
When you require someone to start a new thread *after* a vote has been called, you are effectively preventing their opinions from entering into the vote discussion.
I disagree.
This digression thread is a subthread of the vote thread.
Anyone interested in reading the vote thread can read/write this thread.
The vote is not a discussion, it's a vote. The more discussion you have on the vote thread, the more difficult you make it for people to keep track of who has voted and in which way.
If that was not your intention, then why do you care if they add their signal to the noise?
???
The signal is the vote - which is what everyone wants to see on the vote thread.
The discussion is noise which should be somewhere else - this subthread for example.
So read/write them in a non-voting [sub]thread, the mailing list archive, the wiki, IRC, ...
In other words, if people have opinions that might factor into the
vote that I cast, then I want to hear them before I cast my vote.
Can we drop this? It's simply subverting the digression thread where we could be having an interesting conversation on-topic. Now we are just having a pointless debate about where to hold this interesting discussion.....
Jules
-aaron
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