On Nov 22, 2008, at 13:39, Julian Reschke wrote: >>> [I see] an overwhelming number of comments that indicate it isn't >>> desirable in HTML. >> Volume of comments one way or the other is not a technical argument. > > But volume of comments can be an indicator of whether something has > consensus or not. Volume of comments is not a good indicator of consensus. A list could have 2000 emails of 1 person disagreeing with 1000 other people. It's a known[1] phenomenon that a small number of dissenters (even when the small number is 1) can cause an appearance of a large controversy on a mailing list. (Assuming that consensus is looser than unanimity.) [1] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4216011961522818645 -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/Received on Saturday, 22 November 2008 14:14:18 UTC
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