Originally Posted by
Mary2e
IIRC, the active population hovers around 10k people. I do not believe IB has ever purged the user rolls.
If that's correct, should the desires of 433 members dictate the outcome? If this is a bad idea, it's a bad idea, even if the majority of the voters happen to favor it.
As far as comparison to the TB election, I don't see how that's relevant.
Originally Posted by
nkedel
Where this gets dangerous would be if IB started a "trending posts" (which got a lot of likes) or started prioritizing posts by likes rather than chronologically, or if there's a downvote option (not sure which is worse, anonymous or not, but both have serious downsides.)
Agree completely. Trending posts, prioritizing posts, and a down vote option are all bad ideas.
One of the attributes of FT I like very much is the ability to follow the discussion chronologically - especially if I've been away - so that I can follow how a given discussion has progressed.