On 03/02/2011 05:01 PM, Richard Mann wrote:
I reckon the voting is running at about 24000& a handful for, and a handful against.
Oh, come on. If you’re going to count every element tagged with designation=* as a “vote for” you really ought to count every element *not* tagged with designation=* as a vote against. Both cases are obviously silly.
At best you could count the number of users who have applied this tag using the values described on the page, which is guaranteed to be less than 24000.
Comments alongside the votes are more useful than the votes, really.
I wonder if we might do well to move from a voting system to a “veto-based” system like the one which seems to do well for Musicbrainz. [1] Since it requires a (subjective) good reason for a veto, it might be better than the simple yes/no. On the negative, it allows anyone to hold up forever any idea that they don’t like.
—Alex Mauer “hawke” 1. http://musicbrainz.org/doc/Request_For_Veto#Process_for_Idea_Champions _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
