On Sep 11, 2013, at 11:16 AM, Levi Morrison <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Yes, I know those sites, but don't you think that internals is a different kind of a
> discussion? First of all, the volume is different. We get two obvious trolls a day? Meh. On the
> other hand, I could downvote a person that has a different opinion than I do.
>
> I think that it could be useful for the RFC process mainly. Sometimes someone will dominate a
> discussion but if they are doing so against the popular opinion on an issue it would significantly
> lower the impact of the dominator in a voting system.
On the other hand, that could end up being tyranny of the majority. But I'm not a fan of
forums, I think reddit-like systems are not good for the discussions of the like we have on
internals (for the reasons I wrote before), and that's it :) If anyone likes and wants to set
up the environment that wouldn't disrupt existing discussion patterns, who can stop him or her?
:)
--Leszek