request for moderation [LWN.net]

request for moderation

Posted Feb 13, 2015 23:32 UTC (Fri) by sfeam (subscriber, #2841)
In reply to: request for moderation by mpr22
Parent article: OPW becomes Outreachy

Well yes, but I suggest that the threshold for intervention should be set lower than it currently is. For instance right over there ==> you can find yet another thread with ever-decreasing information content that ping-pongs back and forth between drastically different perceptions of the security implications of kernel commit messages. 265 comments and counting are enough to demonstrate non-convergence of opinion. Any relevance to the original topic "fresh kernels" has long since gone stale. Declare it dead and seal the grave to prevent zombies from re-emerging next month or next year.

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Request to use topic-specific discussions for policy-decisions

Posted Feb 14, 2015 1:29 UTC (Sat) by Limdi (guest, #100500) [Link]

I hate some democratic process cause I sometimes can't see which threads get used as a source of public opinion. @admins please make a call for discussion in case you want all people's opinions to hear.

I ask this cause humans are bound to their mind, sometimes seeing some position more vigorously being taken with no contra, one might seem that these loudest people are what everyone wants. But sometimes it might be seeing the idea as nonsense, which might stop a lot of people from even starting going in contra.

I for one wrote some stupid ideas just last week and I suppose no one answered cause cause they saw it as nonsense, what it really was.

AIUI some projects do votes on issues where a lot of people might be affected to prevent a speaking minority from being the only source of public opinion.

I suppose it depends on you to decide wether this would be a better, meaning more diverse source of opinions to decide upon.