Amén! I just find it ridiculous to apply red-phone rules to lists that ate green-phone! On Mar 30, 2013 10:25 PM, "Maxim Kammerer" <m...@dee.su> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Eugen Leitl <eu...@leitl.org> wrote: > > Failure, actually. It shows that democratic decisions > > tend to produce technically suboptimal results. > > The vote in this case shows that majority of subscribers value their > convenience more than cool stories of someone's past stupidity or > settings guidelines from, of all things, GNU software. To most people, > it is pretty clear that convenience * number of users > some contrived > case of someone getting hurt due to not thinking before doing > something — an intuitive economic argument that somehow eludes people > who value SMTP headers over what users actually want. > > > That the whole list was spammed with voting traffic > > just adds insult to injury -- Dunning-Kruger in > > action. > > It is pretty clear that people wanted their opinion to be known. Just > asking for something (individual replies in case of this vote) doesn't > mean that everyone will comply. Don't assume that you are smarter than > everyone else just because you are better versed in technical aspects > of some issue. > > -- > Maxim Kammerer > Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte > -- > Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by > emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech >
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