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On 07/30/12 10:41, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 10:35:36 -0400 |
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> Michael Orlitzky <michael@××××××××.com> wrote: |
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>> On 07/27/12 16:16, Aaron W. Swenson wrote: |
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>>> No user will be happy with whatever we decide to use as a default. |
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>> The defaults should be what's best for the most people, with a bias |
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>> towards safety. Why don't we just take a survey and choose the most |
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>> common utf8 response? |
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> How can you take a survey like that? How will you ensure it actually |
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> hits the majority? How will you define the majority? |
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Considering that the alternative is to force everyone to change it |
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manually, you can do it however you want and it'll be an improvement. |
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1) Create a webpage with a bunch of options, count the results |
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2) Ask the g.o mailing lists, count responses manually |
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3) Use google docs like the website survey that went out a few days |
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ago |
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It won't hit everyone, but no survey ever does. As long as you get a |
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large enough unbiased sample, it doesn't matter. And anything would be |
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an improvement, so it doesn't matter anyway. |
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