[Python-Dev] PyPI comments and ratings, *really*?

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 08:34:32 am Matthew Woodcraft wrote:

> As I write, the option with the most votes is /Allow both ratings and
> comments/.
>
> But between them, /Disallow comments/ and /Disallow both ratings and
> comments/ have more votes.

If that's an accurate characterisation, then things must have changed 
*radically* in just a few minutes, because the voting at 8:38am 
(Melbourne time) was running 2:1 in favour of allowing comments versus 
disallowing them. At 10:17 it's still running at the same ratio, 
although the individual votes have changed slightly.


> It seems clear to me that, given those figures, allowing comments
> would not be following the result of the vote.

Why do you think it is okay to combine the Disallow vote, without also 
combining the Allow vote? Less than a third of the total votes are in 
favour of disallowing comments, with two-thirds in favour of allowing 
them.




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Steven D'Aprano