Re: RFC Process: more productive conversations

On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 4:02 AM Peter Bowyer <phpmailinglists@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, 25 Mar 2019 at 19:28, Ben Ramsey <ben@benramsey.com> wrote: > > > If someone enters nonsense or “n/a” or any value that doesn’t justify > > their vote or doesn’t appear to satisfactorily justify it according to > some > > metric of justification satisfaction, then does that person’s vote get > > thrown out or discounted? > > > > During the experiment, not at all. > > I'm not presupposing any outcome, and if commenting was kept after the > experiment and if it was to have an effect like you describe, it would need > to go through the RFC process and be approved. > > > > What is the goal of the experiment? > > > > To see if there's a basis in practice for the concern expressed around who > can vote and the problems it may/does cause; > To see how people respond to being asked to comment, explaining their > choice of vote; > To see what impact commenting has on the voting process. > > It would need to be run for a set period of time; perhaps best measured in > "Number of votes carried out". Completely guessed without looking at past > vote frequency, but say 4 months or 10 votes, whichever is longer. > > Peter > For this to have meaningful results, I think you would also need the ability for people to abstain, along with a comment as to why they aren't voting. -- Chase Peeler chasepeeler@gmail.com