<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Darren Oh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:darrenoh@sidepotsinternational.com">darrenoh@sidepotsinternational.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Could we add a Digg-like button to issues that would promote them to a popular issues page?<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I think that's a good idea, and is one of the first new, novel ideas I've seen for addressing this problem in a long time.</div>
<div><br></div><div>And I'm really glad to see such a positive, concrete suggestion.</div><div><br></div><div>The benefit I see is that it more accurately represents the number of people impacted by a particular problem.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Most of the time these threads devolve into useless arguments. Often, too many react defensively, by saying things like the "only" way to address this is to, e.g. review more patches. Using absolutist language like "only" (never, always, etc.) not only discourages new ideas but is demonstrably false. Claiming to know the "only" way to do something in an open source community (or just about in any circumstance) is arrogant, or blind, or defeatist, etc.</div>
</div>