[OSM-talk] Report on the OSMF 2021 Survey after One Week

[Christoph Hormann]

On Monday 25 January 2021, Frederik Ramm wrote:
>
> Plus, the more you engage in arguments and reasoning, the more you
> are "one of those few loud people" who other (less loud but more
> influential) people recommend should be ignored!

It always seems pretty ironic if someone like me who boycotts almost all 
so called social media platforms and centralized prorietary real time 
communication channels (Slack, Telegram) is framed as 'loud'.  I have 
come to read the characterization of people as loud by some mostly as 
code for inconvenient or heretical.

Yes, engaging in arguments can be daunting - but it can also be 
extremely rewarding if you manage to convince others with good 
arguments or others manage to change your opinion and widen your 
horizon with arguments.  And this also leads to more sustainable 
decisions than simply suppressing minority views through the 
overwhelming force of the interests of a majority.

Lastly in my experience offering an argument and reason based open 
discourse has a much better chance of introvert people engaging in the 
process than an approach based on negotiation of interests because 
arguments once articulated can stand on their own merit while interests 
depend on being backed by loud voices (in the original sense of the 
word) to find consideration.

-- 
Christoph Hormann
https://www.imagico.de/