I agree with the prohibition of +1s. The core competency of those who provide this list are moderation and technology, not managing a process through which "involved people [indicate] whether they're for or against it."
That is certainly an excellent function, but it can be offered by anyone who wants to run a system for collecting and displaying those indications. The email list itself is intended to be information rich, and such "approval voting" is not information-rich enough in my view. It is a shame that the moderated messages require so many steps to retrieve. Is it possible to have the "downloadable version" from https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev-moderation/ for each month contain the text of the moderated emails? They do contain the subjects, so that helps. On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 6:25 PM, xor--- via bitcoin-dev < bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > On Thursday, January 21, 2016 11:20:46 AM Rusty Russell via bitcoin-dev > wrote: > > So, what should moderation look like from now on? > > The original mail which announced moderation contains this rule: > > - Generally discouraged: [...], +1s, [...] > > I assume "+1s" means statements such as "I agree with doing X". > > Any sane procedure of deciding something includes asking the involved > people > whether they're for or against it. > If there are dozens of proposals on how to solve a particular technical > problem, how else do you want to decide it than having a vote? > It's very strange that this is not allowed - especially if we consider that > the Bitcoin community is in a state of constant dissent currently. > The effect is likely that you push the actual decision-making to IRC, which > less people have access to (since it's difficult to bear the high traffic), > and thus form some kind of "inner circle" - which makes decisions seem even > more as if they're being dictated. > > So please consider allowing people to say whether they agree with something > something or don't. > > > Other than that, thanks for the good latency of moderation, I guess you're > doing hard work there :) > _______________________________________________ > bitcoin-dev mailing list > bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev > > -- I like to provide some work at no charge to prove my value. Do you need a techie? I own Litmocracy <http://www.litmocracy.com> and Meme Racing <http://www.memeracing.net> (in alpha). I'm the webmaster for The Voluntaryist <http://www.voluntaryist.com> which now accepts Bitcoin. I also code for The Dollar Vigilante <http://dollarvigilante.com/>. "He ought to find it more profitable to play by the rules" - Satoshi Nakamoto
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