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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Anonymous voting on wiki
From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans)

On Sat, 9 Jan 2016, Andrea Faulds wrote:

> Hi Stas,
> 
> Stanislav Malyshev wrote:
>
> > Since in CoC discussion it was mentioned we may need anonymous 
> > voting, I've created a patch that allows anonymous polls to be 
> > created:
> > 
> > https://github.com/php/web-wiki/pull/7
> > 
> > The results still recorded per user, but everybody can see just 
> > their own vote (for logged in users) and total summary. People with 
> > shell access to the server will be able to see the votes, 
> > unfortunately I don't see how to avoid that without serious rewrite. 
> > Also, once the poll is created as anonymous it can't be turned into 
> > non-anonymous without resetting the results or manual admin action.
> > 
> > Please review/comment. Is it's good, I propose to deploy it on 
> > wiki.php.net.
> > 
> 
> This seems useful. I do wonder whether we should use by default for 
> RFCs. It's interesting to see how different people vote, and knowing 
> who voted which way means you can ask them what their objections were. 

I have gotten these question in the past, and I think it's important to 
be able to be asked why you made a specific choice.

> Though, anonymous voting would mean no potential for harassing people 
> for the way they voted (though they're not necessarily free of 
> harassment for their opinion - many people make theirs public anyway).

I do think that for normal RFCs, voting should not be anonymous.

However, if we go that way, I find it important that once voting is 
closed, the votes are always shown (for normal RFCs) - even if chose to 
make normal RFC voting anonymous.

> One concern I have with the patch is that it doesn't appear (by my 
> reading of the code) to show who voted. I think it's important to know 
> who participated in the vote, even if we don't know which way they 
> voted.

I disagree, I think it is important to know who voted for what in the 
end. Some accountability is good. 

cheers,
Derick

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