Hi, On 20/03/13 at 00:00 +0100, Serafeim Zanikolas wrote: > Dear candidates, > > In the words of Lars [*]: > > We're not very good at dealing with situations where a few individuals > are dominating the discussion by being loud, insistent, and unwilling to > budge > or to give any credence to opposing views. I don't know what to do about > that, > but we clearly need social and possibly technical tools for this. > > According to Lars, behind the scenes diplomacy is not sustainable. It seems to > me that the only way to solve this issue effectively is to make trolling > harder (requiring more effort) than ending it. > > Our usual approach of darwinism (whereby a single hacker's solution gets > gradually adopted) does not work here because any attempted solution (social, > technical or both) requires some kind of upfront policy change (and, for > technical measures, some kind of infra change). > > How do you propose that we go about dealing with this issue, keeping in mind > that it's imposs^Wchallenging to get to consensus about non-technical and > potentially controversial policy (moderation) changes?
Basically, my "solution" is three-fold: - Have healthy discussions. I discussed that in https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00246.html - In rare cases, use the TC to decide, as discussed in https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00246.html and https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00132.html - In some cases, use polls to measure consensus, as discussed in https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00144.html Lucas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130320060209.gc19...@xanadu.blop.info
