On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 8:41 AM, Adam Bergmark <a...@bergmark.nl> wrote:
> > 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 <skosy...@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 >> _______________________________________________ >> Haskell-community mailing list >> Haskell-community@haskell.org >> http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-community >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-community mailing list > Haskell-community@haskell.org > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-community > >
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