On Sat, Feb 19, 2022 at 06:04:28AM +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: > Popularity is a *terrible* way to judge ideas. I'm currently fighting > with another platform on that same topic.
Can we ask which platform? > All you can see from a system like that is how many of the popular > ideas get implemented. It says nothing about how many good ideas end > up languishing with a small number of votes, simply because they never > reach critical mass and not enough people see them. Rather like the way we tell people to publish on PyPI and see if it becomes popular. > Does GetSatisfaction allow downvotes? If yes: how do you stop a vocal > few from shooting down any idea they don't like? Nothing like Python-Ideas then :-) Typically voting systems only allow logged-in users to vote, and you can only vote once. You can change your vote at any time, but a vocal few is limited to only downvoting once each, they can't vote a thousand times each and overwhelm the popular voice. Same applies to up-voting. > There is no way to make a popular vote fair. That's an odd take. A better take is that, fair or not, popularity is not necessarily a good judge of what works well in a language. Language design requires skill and taste, and it is not obvious that the wisdom of the crowd extends that far. -- Steve _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/VZFR5D34AV4SMYRTMANWPMRYGYOZEXCO/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
