Community voting

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 09/24/2013 03:12 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
> On 09/24/2013 01:02 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
>> I don't mean to say that the voting app can't or shouldn't be used for
>> anything else; it's fine to use it for other specific things where it
>> makes
>> sense, but we shouldn't start straw-polling on one-off arbitrary issues.
>
> I hardly call settling the long outstanding community issue of reporters
> working directly upstream ( which many upstream wants ) or strictly
> downstream ( which reporters wants ) is arbitrary issue...
>
> So we have both community voice up and vote once the feedback has been
> gathered and summarized and the result from that we will be working
> towards bettering in the next 5 to 10 years
Technical issues are inappropriate to be decided on in democratic 
elections. Decisions on them needs expertise, deep understanding, etc.

Ralf