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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Request for karma to vote on RFCs
From: matthewmatthew@gmail.com (Matthew Brown)

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On Sun, 18 Jul 2021 at 14:47, Tobias Nyholm <tobias.nyholm@gmail.com> wrote=
:

> There has not been many (maybe just one or two) RFCs where I wished the
> vote turned out the other way.
>

This was the reason that I did *not* think that I needed a vote, as a
prolific PHP coder =E2=80=94 while individual voters might be voting the "w=
rong"
way, in the aggregate the decisions were all pretty good. While I think
it's important for me to share my opinion (because my opinion is, like, the
best opinion), I don't think that opinion needs to be able to vote.

You and I still have soft power =E2=80=94 we can use our platform (many exi=
sting
voters follow both you and I on Twitter) to encourage people to vote yes on
an RFC we feel strongly about e.g.
https://twitter.com/psalmphp/status/1347163072587186178.

There are also lots of examples of non-voters influencing RFCs to make them
more acceptable to the wider PHP community:
https://twitter.com/brendt_gd/status/1335090303192195075

Best wishes,

Matt

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