On 2/18/06, Berin Lautenbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Alan D. Cabrera wrote: > > > OT: I dislike the current trend of people using +1, -1, for simple > > conversations. It confuses people and should be reserved for votes. > > The use of +1/-1 for conversations (as apposed to votes) is very common > through the ASF. I've always rather liked it personally. It's a very > "ASF" thing.
+1. :-) What's been quite interesting is to see this convention being used in contexts outside the ASF as well ... the underlying message is that consensus building is important, plus the ability of contributors to consisely indicate "yes I agree" or "no, I disagree," plus the ability to express shades of opinion between these extremes. IMHO, that is absolutely the best social impact of this concept ... if you make a +1 or -1 comment, you have to be pretty totally commited to (or against) a particular approach. On the other hand, *not* expressing a +1 or -1 gives you lots of opportunities to build consensus in the middle, by recognizing that both extremes will often have perfectly valid points to have been made, and that compromise is a reasonable strategy. Cheers, > Berin > > Craig
