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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting irregularities
From: smalyshev@gmail.com (Stanislav Malyshev)

Hi!

> Which post says that we're turning PHP into Java. And to this
> misguided FUD post, that actively asks people to vote no, I can quite
> easily attribute a few more no votes of people that had never voted
> before...

I have seen many messages on the list which I personally consider very
wrong and/or misguided, and that called to vote yes. And I can, if I'd
like to, attribute significant number of yes votes to it (of course, the
true answer is I have no idea if it's so or not, but neither do you,
right?). Does it mean those votes are invalid? Does it mean I can pick
and choose yes votes I dislike and throw them out (I'd even include 1/4
of opposite votes just like it was done in topic-starting message, for
fairness :) I don't think that would be a healthy process, do you?

> Too late to tighten up the rules for this one, but something is
> definitely not right with the current process.

OK, what do you offer to improve it? Restrict who can vote? How? Allow
votes only to people that are well-informed? How do you distinguish
"well informed" from "agrees with me"? So far I don't think solution for
this issue has been ever found, even when the stakes are much much
higher than strict typing in PHP, but if you have a solution it would
certainly be interesting to hear it.
-- 
Stas Malyshev
smalyshev@gmail.com