[Tagging] An after-burner meta-discussion

[David Marchal]

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Topographe Fou <letopographefou at gmail.com> schrieb am Dienstag, 15. Februar 2022 um 09:09:

> 6.  Consensus quality is not a 48h rush debate where everyone need to give its opinion on the first day. It requires time, arguments and reflexions (like for votes). Most of the debates we have here are "solved" in a rush so that only people who have nothing else in their life than OSM can follow. There is often a ping pong with narrow opportunities to step in. Please give people (and yourself) time to think.
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>     Now how can we improve ourself? I don't think we can have a qualitative digest of debates without spending as many energy to debate the digest content itself. Let focus on quality: Give time to people (so they will step in after having a reflexion time. If needed impose you a rule of 1 message per topic per day), take time to document farely pros and cons after a debate even if you "lost" a debate. Only time and fare can smoothened a consensus.

This is an important idea, I think: mails, social networks, SMS… allows great speed in the exchanges, but it also often leads to heated debates. Our brains tend to intuitively react with the guts, with emotion, and this speed tends to incite an immediate answer, without taking time to think and ponder the issue, quickly leading to uselessly heated debates. How to incite the contributors to take time to think about the issue? A hard limit on the numbers of posts in a given topic per day could maybe make it, but I'm unsure…