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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] On voting, including the next release name.
From: php@beccati.com (Matteo Beccati)

On 25/07/2014 13:17, Bishop Bettini wrote:
> 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?

I might be wrong, but I think someone tried, but was asked to revert the
change soon after.

I would also expect that people who have voting rights on the wiki are
mature enough to vote based on their own knowledge and experience, and
not only because someone else voted a certain way (or didn't). Speaking
for myself if I don't have an opinion on some RFCs, I just avoid voting.

About this specific RFC, are you trying to suggest that 7 is leading (49
vs 21 atm) because of the bandwagon effect and we should restart the vote?

/me facepalm ;)


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