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:: Sorry I keep procrastinating on responding to this stuff. I guess I just don't understand why we shouldn't be the first ones to publish it. This is as much a public discussion venue as any of the other places you've mentioned. What makes it different?
:: Also, what exactly is meant by "vetting"? Proving that it's "good"? By what metric? If we're just documenting someone's proposal that turned out to be "bad" after analysis, isn't it still beneficial to have it written down, so that others can learn from the mistake? — [[User:Psephomancy|Psephomancy]] ([[User talk:Psephomancy|talk]]) 05:01, 12 February 2020 (UTC)
::: By "vetting" I mean "posted in a low-friction venue for known election method experts". "Known" means (selfishly) "known by me". [[EM list]] has been going for nearly 24 years, and I've tried to get many of the experts I care the most about hearing from to switch technologies, but I haven't convinced all of them. If someone posts a dubious article here on electowiki, I want to hear their thoughts.
::: A wiki is not a good discussion forum. It's a good place to document the result of a discussion. I guess I can't understand your resistance to asking people to put things in their user space first, then discussing it on one of the fora that already have momentum, and only then publishing it in the main namespace.
::: If someone's proposal turns out to be "bad" after analysis, I strongly prefer that anonymous readers of the website aren't subjected to wasting their time reading it. I value my personal time and the time of this site's readers. It seems unfair to me and to them to force us to read and understand proposed systems that haven't been vetted anywhere else. Once the electowiki community has enough independent momentum, perhaps we can reconsider, but I'd prefer that not try to transform the main namespace of his wiki into free-for-all, unmoderated discussion forum. I think the credibility of electowiki will suffer as a result. -- [[User:RobLa|RobLa]] ([[User talk:RobLa|talk]]) 17:52, 12 February 2020 (UTC)
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