On Jul 15, 2006, at 4:13 AM, Michael Thomas wrote:
Is it just in my part of the ietf woods, or is this becoming a
widespread
phenomenon? If so, is this a good thing or a bad thing?
Over in Atompub, this has become the normal idiom for reacting to
proposals, with common usages such as +/- 0 and 0.5. We even use it
to do WG surveys when there are multiple apparently-plausible options
on the table. "Rough consensus" may occasionally be deduced from the
presence of quite a few +1's and almost no -1's. It seems to work OK.
For example, "-0" is an awful lot fewer bytes than "I don't like
that, but I won't lie down in the road over it".
Obviously, everyone multiples the numeric quantity by their own
estimate of the credibility of the person uttering it.
-Tim
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