Re: Ian et al: Poll conclusions

Matthew Toseland <[email protected]> Sun, 27 Nov 2016 21:18:36 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.network.freenet.devel
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On 27/11/16 21:08, [email protected] wrote:
> On Sunday, November 27, 2016 09:29:45 PM Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
>> [email protected] writes:
>>> There are some tough administrative decisions remaining to make about
>>> stage 3, namely which voters to exclude from stage 3 because they look
>>> like a sybil attack.
>> I don’t like this behind-closed-doors-guessing-about-sybil.
> That's OK, here's what happened:
> While most participants of the poll from IRC have been known in the community 
> for years, 70% of the anonymous FMS participants created their identity within 
> a month of the poll's announcement, as measured by my instance of FMS which 
> has been running for years.
>
> Now one might say that this is conclusive enough and I should just publish the 
> results without the sybils.

Yes, you should. Give the process a chance.
> But the initial problem which this thread is about doesn't stop there:
> There will most certainly be some controversy about what to do first because a 
> poll of something like 70 items will certainly not cause any winner with a big 
> majority, it will be a close call.
>
> So someone has to make a decision then. And then we're again left with the 
> initial problem: Ian doesn't seem to have the time to make decisions.
>
> And even if he does:
> Then we decided for *one* thing to do first. So we start it, and it is 
> finished some day.
> And then we *again* need to decide what to do next.
> And then Ian again has no time.
> So we repeat this 70 times now or what?

I'd be very surprised if $25K got that far...

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