Re: Ian et al: Poll conclusions

Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab-S0/[email protected]> Mon, 28 Nov 2016 00:12:48 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.network.freenet.devel
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[email protected] writes:

> 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.

From the votes I saw from them, many of these are likely Frost
users. That means they are unlikely to be Sybils, but rather just those
with very different priorities.

Just do both evaluations and note what changes.

> 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?

Avoiding this is pretty simple: Calculate the top 5 right away. Invest
money into getting them done. We don’t have money for more than that anyway.

Best wishes,
Arne
-- 
Unpolitisch sein
heißt politisch sein
ohne es zu merken

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