David Gerard wrote: > On 28 September 2010 23:12, Risker <risker...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> You're losing the hearts and minds battle here, guys. >> > There'll be new hearts and minds along in eighteen months. > Come now, regardless of how one feels about the status of this particular feature (one for which community views and consensus have always been a challenge to interpret, so I would be happy to see a little less strident claims about what the current consensus is or isn't): The notion that we can just pass over disagreement based on participant turnover smacks of treating people as disposable, and is really inappropriate. We would be better off with more people working seriously to figure out the best answers to the issues this feature addresses, plus whatever issues there may be with the feature itself, rather than having a debating duel about the significance of a set of polling statistics. It's like having politicians decide how to govern entirely based on opinion polls.
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