On Sunday, November 27, 2016 09:29:45 PM Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > [email protected] writes: > > There are some tough administrative decisions remaining to make about > > stage 3, namely which voters to exclude from stage 3 because they look > > like a sybil attack. > > I don’t like this behind-closed-doors-guessing-about-sybil.
That's OK, here's what happened: While most participants of the poll from IRC have been known in the community for years, 70% of the anonymous FMS participants created their identity within a month of the poll's announcement, as measured by my instance of FMS which has been running for years. Now one might say that this is conclusive enough and I should just publish the results without the sybils. But the initial problem which this thread is about doesn't stop there: There will most certainly be some controversy about what to do first because a poll of something like 70 items will certainly not cause any winner with a big majority, it will be a close call. So someone has to make a decision then. And then we're again left with the initial problem: Ian doesn't seem to have the time to make decisions. And even if he does: Then we decided for *one* thing to do first. So we start it, and it is finished some day. And then we *again* need to decide what to do next. And then Ian again has no time. So we repeat this 70 times now or what? So the reason I created this thread is not primarily because I need an answer to the specific sybil problem; but because I suspect that the poll as a whole will create even more delay after that. We're just too few people for such an overengineered mechanism. It'd work if we were a company of 100 and could delegate a whole employee solely to it. Which is probably what Ian had designed it for in the first place, he was talking about his experience as a project manager in his first post about it...
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