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Date:      Fri, 22 Oct 2021 10:30:40 -0700
From:      Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@freebsd.org>
To:        Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, "<dev-commits-src-all@freebsd.org>" <dev-commits-src-all@freebsd.org>, dev-commits-src-main@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: git: 225639e7db68 - main - vt: Disable bell by default
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On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 10:59:28AM -0600, Ian Lepore wrote:
I> On Fri, 2021-10-22 at 06:28 +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
I> > > Our users aren't so unsophisticated as to be totally swayed by the
I> > > choice of wording.
I> > 
I> > This is not how it works Warner, you don't first offer biased poll
I> > and then defend skewed results by appealing to observed ratio and
I> > how smart your target audience is.
I> 
I> Do you really believe different words would change the result from 4:1
I> against to some number in favor?  Of course you don't, you're only
I> complaining because your opinion is VERY CLEARLY the minority one.

I don't think unbiased wording would affect voting result if we did
the vote within developers@FreeBSD.org. But the vote with biased
wording was placed on.. hold my beer! ... on TWITTER, the most unbiased
platform in the world! So, Warner has 1280 followers and I would claim
that many of them are not FreeBSD users, and some probably doesn't
have idea what FreeBSD bell problem is. It was retweeted by 7 people,
some of whom has hundreds of followers. Given twitter algorithms, the
poll may show up even in feed of people who don't follow Warner or
retwitters directly. You know, some people love to express their opinion
on social media, so why not to click on the poll, to help those FreeBSD guys?
To sum up, we are asking semi-random set of people a question charged with
a correct answer. What would you expect?

-- 
Gleb Smirnoff



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