I agree with the prohibition of +1s.  The core competency of those who provide this list are moderation and technology, not managing a process through which "involved people [indicate] whether they're for or against it."

That is certainly an excellent function, but it can be offered by anyone who wants to run a system for collecting and displaying those indications.  The email list itself is intended to be information rich, and such "approval voting" is not information-rich enough in my view.

It is a shame that the moderated messages require so many steps to retrieve.  Is it possible to have the "downloadable version" from https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev-moderation/ for each month contain the text of the moderated emails?  They do contain the subjects, so that helps.

On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 6:25 PM, xor--- via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
On Thursday, January 21, 2016 11:20:46 AM Rusty Russell via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> So, what should moderation look like from now on?

The original mail which announced moderation contains this rule:
> - Generally discouraged: [...], +1s, [...]

I assume "+1s" means statements such as "I agree with doing X".

Any sane procedure of deciding something includes asking the involved people
whether they're for or against it.
If there are dozens of proposals on how to solve a particular technical
problem, how else do you want to decide it than having a vote?
It's very strange that this is not allowed - especially if we consider that
the Bitcoin community is in a state of constant dissent currently.
The effect is likely that you push the actual decision-making to IRC, which
less people have access to (since it's difficult to bear the high traffic),
and thus form some kind of "inner circle" - which makes decisions seem even
more as if they're being dictated.

So please consider allowing people to say whether they agree with something
something or don't.


Other than that, thanks for the good latency of moderation, I guess you're
doing hard work there :)
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