2011/12/14 David Earl <da...@frankieandshadow.com> > > > On Tuesday, December 13, 2011, Jo <winfi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Critical mass is there, at a ratio of more than a 100/1 and that is of > the people who had to speak out their opinion. > > That's not the point. Since not making a decision is the same as declining > for the purposes of data survival, deleting a quarter to a third of the map > seems to me to be the project committing suicide. It will improve no doubt > as time goes on, but I was seriously expecting the threshold to be in the > 90+% of data survival to proceed. >
Then the whole process would drag on forever. It's good a definite date has been set and we can all, as a community, start working towards the goal of 'rescuing' as much as possible. > > Yes, the 100/1 means that only a tiny fraction of the red and orange is > ideological, it's surely mostly about people who have moved on, in > interests, email addresses or mortality who we'll just never hear from. If > it were just their edits, I'd be much less concerned, but it's the way it > kills everyone else afterwards. It's even more galling when they deleted > the original data to make their edit, so they've effectively taken the > earlier work away too. > > I'll certainly be contacting people now Frederick has provided an easy > means to evaluate the data, but I'm not overly optimistic about people > replying - I run a membership database and find maybe 10% of people change > their email addresses each year, and half of those don't tell me, and > that's when they've paid an annual sub to belong. > I tried and out of a few hundred people I contacted in Belgium and the Netherlands, 20 responded and maybe 15 said yes (I also contacted people who had already explicitly declined). > Is anyone going to answer the question about the threshold? I'm not being > rhetorical, I really would like to know. > > David
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