Re: line-move-visual

[Miles Bader]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden> writes:
>  > However, polling the users is a good way for the maintainers to
>  > learn how users think about a proposed change.
>
> The problem is that the pollsters rarely design the poll in a way that
> encourages thinking at all, let alone conveying the line of thought to
> the pollster.  And pollsters generally just report the numerical
> results.

I seem to recall that Richard has said in the past that the most useful
part of polls was not really any numerical tally, but the comments
people made; it can be useful tool in getting input from people that
aren't normally part of the discussion.

For the reasons you state, and others, of course, mere "votes" (without
a kind of rigor and scope which is more or less impossible for us to
achieve) seem almost useless.

-Miles

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