Ludicrous Acceptable/Unacceptable voting

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john p.

I thought Susan's instructions were pretty clear, but some of the
responses to these two topics have been just plain absurd. Why would
you leave something on the list just because you aren't familiar with
it? How does not knowing anything about a program qualify you to judge
its acceptability or unacceptability? This, to me, makes your vote for
that program useless. The most curious posts are the ones that say
they want to leave *none* of the listed programs, which is directly
contrary to the instructions. Why bother to post a response to that
topic at all? Isn't the idea to accumulate positive votes in that
thread since there is an opportunity to post an opposite vote in the
reverse thread? Shouldn't folks be voting only on those progs with
which they are familiar through actual personal use? If not, then how
is there any validity at all to the PL listings? End of Rant.
 
johnp. said:
The most curious posts are the ones that say they want to leave
*none* of the listed programs, which is directly contrary to
the instructions.
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I agree with your sentiments. Reading through the thread I
couldn't help but think "this is going to make it much harder for
vote counters".

Now they have to look out for people's specific instructions to
include "all" or "none" etc etc. when all they wanted to do was
just check the listed items and move on.
 
john p. wrote in
I thought Susan's instructions were pretty clear, but some of the
responses to these two topics have been just plain absurd.
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I think it was honest confusion (with a false dichotomy lurking
somewhere in there ;) .

A while after you posted this, Susan posted a clearer (IMO) alternative
Acceptable/Unacceptable voting thread, and I'm just posting here to
link from this thread to that new one:

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