Three people out of four dislike SDL

bachmeier via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Dec 1 10:18:09 PST 2015


On Tuesday, 1 December 2015 at 17:26:13 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 12/01/2015 09:18 AM, Timon Gehr wrote:
>> On 12/01/2015 03:01 PM, Saurabh Das wrote:
>>> now told that 75% of the community doesn't like the change.
>>
>> I'm sorry to enter this discussion, but that's simply not what 
>> the poll
>> is saying. It should be very obvious that the poll is basically
>> meaningless.
>
> Independent on the topic at hand - wondering what your 
> reasoning is. I just took a look and there are 205 votes. Not a 
> large number, but quite a lot more than any voting we saw in 
> the past (when consensus was proclaimed after like 15 votes 
> :o)). Intuitively I agree with you, but I wonder at what point 
> numbers become large enough to capture meaning. Thx! -- Andrei

One possibility is that you have to care enough to vote. It's 
hard to imagine that there is symmetry between those that dislike 
the new format and those that don't. And some members of the 
community don't even use Dub.

On other matters, 15 votes is fine, if they're the ones that care 
and have the background to form an opinion.


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