Re: On voting, including the next release name.

On 25 July 2014 12:17, Bishop Bettini <bishop@php.net> wrote: > I just voted on the next release name > <https://wiki.php.net/rfc/php6>. If > you have, too: thank you. If you haven't, I encourage you to do so. > > The way voting works now, I happen to know which option is "winning". I > happened to know that *before* I cast my vote. The current results are > posted on the RFC, and the same information percolated into emails > encouraging folks to vote. I wonder, though, if knowing which was "leading" > and who chose which "side" affected my vote.... > > I propose that a poll's results tabulation be hidden until after the poll > closes to avoid this Bandwagon Effect > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandwagon_effect>. > Otherwise, how do we > know > the vote reflects just the presented arguments instead of the arguments > *and* the weight of popularity? > We tried this [1], and it was promptly reverted [2]. > > Sincerely, > bishop > [1] https://github.com/php/web-wiki/pull/1 [2] http://markmail.org/thread/3tk3ayjy54mviuig