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On Wednesday 16 January 2008 07:14:47 pm Alec Warner wrote: |
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> With regards to users voting, I know robbat2 is working on a bunch of |
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> surveys; I don't have a timeline for those yet. If we do vote I doubt |
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> users would get one as there is no way to do things like identity |
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> verification or detect vote tampering (which a dev-only vote can |
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> accomplish). |
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Hello Alec, |
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Yes I understand these things take time, and there are some legal |
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complications. Too often have I heard things from people like this. |
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Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o> |
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> It's easy to make a decision when you're not the one who has to live |
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> with it. It's also easy to make a decision when someone else has to do |
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> all the work. |
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This statement was in reply to a user who thinks Dan should get the position |
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back, and I believe (let him correct me if I'm wrong) that he's saying that |
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because he's the user he doesn't have to live with the consequences of the |
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decision, or do any work. |
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It isn't a free ride being a user either. I've helped on the forums, I've |
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tried to help, by reporting bugs, sometimes successfully, sometimes I've been |
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wrong, etc... and sometimes the devs just don't want to fix the issue. I've |
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also had to fix problems caused by borked ebuilds... everyone makes |
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mistakes... but don't assume that users aren't impacted by a devs decision. |
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ultimately I just don't want the devs saying let's vote to hell with the |
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users. |
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instead of "surveys" you could just set up a email address to receive votes. |
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yes no in the subject line. and have all email addresses have to be |
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pre-registered by a human... for added security you could require pgp |
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signatures with keys that can be validated on a public mirror... |
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otherwise just get a thread count after a week or so. 1 vote per email address |
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or something, and ask people only to vote once. It's not perfect but neither |
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is any other system. nor does it need to be. this isn't the president of |
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<your country> after all. |
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Caleb Cushing |
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PGP keys available on key server |
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wwwkeys.us.pgp.net |
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Due to low Internet availability I may not check |
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my email more than once a week, and thus cannot |
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guarantee a response time. |
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