Re: Request for karma to vote on RFCs

Hey Jordan, Hey All. Am 20.07.21 um 10:07 schrieb Jordan LeDoux: > Another aspect that I thought about after reading your draft was a way to > structurally avoid concerns about stacking. I don't believe that there > would necessarily be overt efforts to grant karma to individuals to push > certain concerns to the side, however it might be worth considering if the > process could promote a variety of opinions and backgrounds. Even if such a > situation were considered unlikely, it could be worth writing such a > process with that in mind if the process involves a sponsor. > > As I said earlier, it makes sense for many reasons to require a sponsor to > get voting karma, however this may unnecessarily make the applicant > associated with their sponsor or their sponsor's history and contributions > (which could be a positive or negative to one person or the other). It also > makes it less likely that a perspective which is totally unrepresented gets > sponsored. This could also be a positive thing, as not all perspectives are > truly relevant or constructive to all the processes. But it might be worth > considering these impacts explicitly. > > It's also worth considering if people believe that this is a process that > will be iterated on or if there is a desire to get it right the first time > and stick with it. Perhaps if the intent is to iterate, or at least > explicitly revisit the criteria, the RFC could include an expiration at > which time a vote to either keep or change the process could be held, which > gives everyone clarity and certainty about the structure over a given > period. > > Those are my immediate thoughts on your rough draft. I've incorporated the changes into a PR https://github.com/heiglandreas/rfc/pull/1/files and also added these concerns to the PR description. Either I'll see to it to incorporate them or if someone else wants to create a PR to discuss those concerns I'd be happy as well. Cheers Andreas -- ,,, (o o) +---------------------------------------------------------ooO-(_)-Ooo-+ | Andreas Heigl | | mailto:andreas@heigl.org N 50°22'59.5" E 08°23'58" | | https://andreas.heigl.org | +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ | https://hei.gl/appointmentwithandreas | +---------------------------------------------------------------------+

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