[Python-ideas] Clearer communication

[Marcos Eliziario]

+1 votes hardly add anything to a technical discussion, and in the
contrary, can and do easily lead to a dysfunctional decision style.
If you agree with someone else's idea, you probably have some rational
arguments behind it, some hard evidence that has not yet been discussed and
that could change the course of the discussions.
If you can't come up with even a single reason why you like a proposal,
probably you didn't think too much about, and so, your +1 would be an
uninformed vote.
And last, this list is not a decision instance for python, it is just a
place where people can share ideas about it, but the final decisions are
not meant to be taken here.

Em sex, 1 de fev de 2019 às 16:02, Marcos Eliziario <
marcos.eliziario at gmail.com> escreveu:

> +1 votes hardly add anything to a technical discussion, and in the
> contrary, can and do easily lead to a dysfunctional decision style.
> If you agree with someone else's idea, you probably have some rational
> arguments behind it, some hard evidence that has not yet been discussed and
> that could change the course of the discussions.
> If you can't come up with even a single reason why you like a proposal,
> probably you didn't think too much about, and so, your +1 would be an
> uninformed vote.
> And last, this list is not a decision instance for python, it is just a
> place where people can share ideas about it, but the final decisions are
> not meant to be taken here.
>
> Em sex, 1 de fev de 2019 às 15:49, David Mertz <mertz at gnosis.cx> escreveu:
>
>> On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 12:43 PM Adrien Ricocotam <ricocotam at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> What I think is bad using mailing list it's the absence of votes. I'd
>>> often like to just hit a "+1" button for some mails just to say to the
>>> author I'm with him and I think s.he's ideas are great.
>>>
>>
>> I feel like the strongest virtue of mailing lists is the absence of votes.
>>
>> Various chat systems where you can add a "thumbs up" or "smile" or the
>> like encourage laziness and content-free interaction.  On a mailing list,
>> for the most part, we encourage people to formulate complete opinions
>> supported by reasons and arguments.  That is what python-ideas should be.
>> It should not be a democracy or a voting system.
>>
>> That said, obviously sometimes people do just reply with +1 to
>> something.  I do that myself at times.  There are times when that really is
>> an appropriate reply, but I think it should be discouraged as the default
>> answer style.
>>
>> Yours, David...
>>
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