On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 18:16:44 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > What if someone else already wrote that, possibly in better words than I > could? If you really feel like it's necessary, you can reply to the thread with: I like this proposal mainly because of A and B, but I am a bit concerned about C. Person P. already gave an good argument as to why. > The rules for submitting or sponsoring actual voting proposals / > amendments etc. are clearly laid out, I don't see any danger here. Well, I do, though none of us can see into the future. But that makes me wonder: If you don't think likes/dislikes as present on discourse have an influence on this: Why bother using it at all ? And even if I only mentioned it with one sentence in the debian-vote section as I wrote about it before: The accessibility, which would *decrease* with discourse, (and exclude mail-interface users from the like/disliking) should be a top priority for debian-vote. If you want to give people more familiar with forums a familiar interface, I'd say the reverse approach is much more feasible and does not create problems with accessibility: Offer a forum-like front-end for the mailing list. There are already 3rd parties offering something like that for debian mailing-lists. One that sometimes shows up in my search results, would be nabble (note that I'm not endorsing or recommending any such 3rd party provider) http://debian.2.n7.nabble.com/Debian-is-testing-Discourse-td4669989.html If there is a need for that debian could offer something like that itself (if it does not yet exists, didn't check). As the backend would still be purely text based, there is no issue with accessibility or feature exclusion. This leaves us only with "moderation" as a _potential_ benefit of discourse as a primary interface. Stronger moderation with retroactive editing and deleting however, while it night offer _some_ benefits, also creates a fair share of problems and potential for abuse in the future. Given the disadvantages with a forum focused interface, I don't think a potential benefit in moderation is worth it. -- Nito
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