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<div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">25 May 2019, 17:44 by f@zz.de:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div style="16px" text-align="left">On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 02:28:45AM +0200, Tobias Zwick wrote:<br></div><blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">1. Thesis: Mailing lists (and to a lesser degree, classical forums) promote a culture of dissent.<br></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">I strongly disagree here. How can a technical form of communication<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">make a "culture of dissent"?<br></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">Some forums, slack allow you to<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">add +1 to a comment in acceptable<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">nonspammy way without changing <br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">visibility of content [1]</div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">As result with opinion that is shared<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">by 20 people and one opponent you may get:<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">On forum with upvotes enabled:<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">1 opposing reply<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">20 "xyz liked this post"<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">On mailing list:<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">1 opposing reply<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">For many second is much more frustrating<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">than the first one.</div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div style="16px" text-align="left">From a sociological point i would assume that people on the mailinglist<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">are by average 10 Years older than people on Slack or the Forum. Thats<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">just a matter of history of technology.<br></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">That is probably also an <br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">important factor, there are likely also<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">other confounders.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">[1] allowing upvotes/downvotes to<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">affect content visibility results in<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">other group of unwanted effects</div> </body>
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