- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 16:13:35 +0200
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@gbiv.com>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
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/
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