For what it's worth, my interest in starting this thread was, as a new participant to the list:
- it's hard to observe the opinions of decision-makers
- the last response in a conversation can feel like the consensus, creating an incentive to "get the last word" by repeating oneself, by writing in a style that discourages response, or by speaking on a different aspect of the topic without direct response (as I suppose I am doing here)
The reason I latched onto Sjoerd's question of whether he had the right to say "+1" was to highlight the issue of observing agreement, especially the agreement of folks who can change the language. I'm not interested in a voting system for the purpose of having a vote, but so I can see who has been convinced of what, what clout they have, and whether another message is useful.