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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] On voting, including the next release name.
From: petercowburn@gmail.com (Peter Cowburn)

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On 25 July 2014 12:17, Bishop Bettini <bishop@php.net> wrote:

> 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?
>

We tried this [1], and it was promptly reverted [2].


>
> Sincerely,
> bishop
>

[1] https://github.com/php/web-wiki/pull/1
[2] http://markmail.org/thread/3tk3ayjy54mviuig

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