Re: git: 225639e7db68 - main - vt: Disable bell by default

On Fri, 22 Oct 2021 10:30:40 -0700
Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 10:59:28AM -0600, Ian Lepore wrote:
> I> On Fri, 2021-10-22 at 06:28 +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> I> > > Our users aren't so unsophisticated as to be totally swayed by the
> I> > > choice of wording.
> I> > 
> I> > This is not how it works Warner, you don't first offer biased poll
> I> > and then defend skewed results by appealing to observed ratio and
> I> > how smart your target audience is.
> I> 
> I> Do you really believe different words would change the result from 4:1
> I> against to some number in favor?  Of course you don't, you're only
> I> complaining because your opinion is VERY CLEARLY the minority one.
> 
> I don't think unbiased wording would affect voting result if we did
> the vote within developers@FreeBSD.org. But the vote with biased
> wording was placed on.. hold my beer! ... on TWITTER, the most unbiased
> platform in the world! So, Warner has 1280 followers and I would claim
> that many of them are not FreeBSD users, and some probably doesn't
> have idea what FreeBSD bell problem is. It was retweeted by 7 people,
> some of whom has hundreds of followers. Given twitter algorithms, the
> poll may show up even in feed of people who don't follow Warner or
> retwitters directly. You know, some people love to express their opinion
> on social media, so why not to click on the poll, to help those FreeBSD guys?
> To sum up, we are asking semi-random set of people a question charged with
> a correct answer. What would you expect?
> 
> -- 
> Gleb Smirnoff

 Let's ask our community then :
https://discord.com/channels/727023752348434432/757543661058654269/901166071078322267

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