[whatwg] Saying +1 or -1 is not useful on this mailing list

mozer xmlizer at gmail.com
Mon Apr 30 13:58:24 PDT 2007


Hi Hixie,

I understand your position. But sometimes, people (even on this list)
instead of just add +1 write dozens of lines. Is this better ?

And really sorry, if Maciej's proposal was short but complete

Regards,

Xmlizer

On 4/30/07, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Apr 2007, mozer wrote:
> >
> > +1
>
> On Sat, 28 Apr 2007, David Hyatt wrote:
> >
> > +1 also.
>
> Please don't send e-mails with just "+1" (or "-1") to this mailing list.
> While I know it seems to have become common practice in the public-html
> mailing list, it will have absolutely no effect on this list (the WHATWG
> list). I only consider the quality of arguments in making decisions for
> the WHATWG spec, not the quantity. There could be 50 +1s asking for
> something, and it would still only take one counterargument showing why
> the request is bad to change the spec the other way.
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Ian Hickson               U+1047E                )\._.,--....,'``.    fL
> http://ln.hixie.ch/       U+263A                /,   _.. \   _\  ;`._ ,.
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>



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