Agreed. But no one wants opinions that add nothing to the topic at hand or attempt to derail the conversation. A system like this would give power to the people who are actually trying to keep the conversation on track so that constructive discourse can occur.
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Leszek Krupiński <leafn...@gmail.com>wrote: > > On Sep 11, 2013, at 10:44 AM, Andrea Faulds <a...@ajf.me> wrote: > > > On 11/09/2013 15:42, Leszek Krupiński wrote: > >> -1 - that would split discussions and force people interested in the > subject to look at two sources. --Leszek > > I actually had a solution to that: > > > > >Perhaps the software could be implemented such that all posts and > replies on it would also be sent to the mailing list in the appropriate > format, so that people reading the mailing list could still see what was > going on. > > > > A web interface on top of the mailing list with an upvote/downvote layer > could provide this, so long as it's intelligent enough. This way, people > would still be able to use the mailing list directly, but could also look > at the web view with its hierarchical format and upvotes and downvotes. It > also means people could use the web interface exclusively if they wished. > > If the forum would be a way to access the same data in a different way, > it's ok. But the 'votes' remind me of "protests" on Facebook that have > thousands of 'likes' but completely no impact. RFCs are a place for voting, > and mailing lists are a place for expressing opinions. > > --Leszek > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >
