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I saw it mentioned earlier that one of the reasons they keep they keep the discussion private is to filter out general noise. Anyone who has been on these sorts
by Maciek416 17y ago
I saw it mentioned earlier that one of the reasons they keep they keep the discussion private is to filter out general noise. Anyone who has been on these sorts of lists before knows that it can often become very difficult to conduct the business of the mailing list without having spammers, trolls, or complete newbies stumbling in every minute.
To some degree, this makes sense, but I'm not sure why a read-only but publicly-viewable list wouldn't do just fine. The whole behind closed doors committee aspect of the W3 seems incredibly dated.
Spec committees need a reboot.
- fnid2 17y agoSo then don't use a mailing list or make it possible for everyone to read the list, but not contribute to it. Why can myriad algorithms and websites exist that successfully filter noise and the organization that is controlling the direction of the web can't? Use a forum. Use a upvotes and downvotes. Works really well. The reason they don't do that is because powerful people don't want the world to know how they subtly change the world toward their selfish betterment at the expense of the rest of the world -- exactly what adobe is doing. And it is in all their best interest. It's the same reason the democrats want closed door meetings and the republicans do too. Because somewhere down the line, that secrecy benefits both parties. If they take that from the dems, they also take it from the reps. In this case, if the other orgs involved in the W3C expose Adobe, then at some point in the future when they want something kept secret -- it too could be exposed through the same channels. It's a tactic of the elites.