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Subject: On voting, including the next release name.
From: bishop@php.net (Bishop Bettini)

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I just voted on the next release name <https://wiki.php.net/rfc/php6>. If
you have, too: thank you.  If you haven't, I encourage you to do so.

The way voting works now, I happen to know which option is "winning".  I
happened to know that *before* I cast my vote.  The current results are
posted on the RFC, and the same information percolated into emails
encouraging folks to vote. I wonder, though, if knowing which was "leading"
and who chose which "side" affected my vote....

I propose that a poll's results tabulation be hidden until after the poll
closes to avoid this Bandwagon Effect
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandwagon_effect>.  Otherwise, how do we know
the vote reflects just the presented arguments instead of the arguments
*and* the weight of popularity?

Sincerely,
bishop

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