On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 10:02:13AM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > I would hope to have a way of responding to any mail in our mailing > lists, preferably via something that I could bind to a keystroke in my > mail reader, without needing anyone to set up a poll in advance. > > I'd expect the service to keep a tally, but keep the identities of > voters secret. I'd also restrict the right to vote (with criteria > depending on the mailing list) to avoid people making up IDs to skew > votes, or random passers-by voting because they found a link somewhere. > > With such a service, one could gather opinions simply by saying "Please > respond to this mail via the thumbs-o-matic" and have an instant poll > with no effort. > > Also, if someone started a divisive GR discussion, instead of it > immediately starting a flame war, it might instead mostly provoke a big > thumbs down on the thumbs-o-matic, and one of the responses to the > discussion could simply mention that fact, pointing at an automatically > generated graph. That would then give the proposer the chance to > encourage their claimed silent majority to see if they can push the > figures into the positive, and if not, one could hope that the proposer > would have the sense to give up early. > > I could also imagine setting up my mail program to query the > thumbs-o-matic to help it decide how to sort or present my mail. You described Reddit, just with some very complicated integration with your mail client.
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