Hi Michele, All, I had to Google for 'astroturfing'. I learned something today. :-) As i see it, the "community" is not a closed group. It was repeateadly stated that "consensus" or "rough consensus" is not a vote. I think that is clear for everyone. Just like a few days ago i wrote that i hoped there wasn't any kind of discrimination against portuguese participants, i hope there isn't also any kind of discrimination against new participants on this WG. I may understand if some people prefer to have less people in the WG, but i'm not part of that set. While worrying about how we can improve rules/tools against Abuse (that's the point of an Anti-Abuse WG, right?), i would also like to see a much larger number of people involved! If someone has any doubt about if newcomers are real persons, then please Google away. :-) I met in person most of people that are supporting 2019-03 and also those that are opposing it (some of which i even co-authored other proposals), since a while back. ps: I think i haven't met Sebastien Lahtinen in person since 10y or so, so if 2019-03 made him show up on the list, that's another plus :-)) Best Regards, Carlos On Wed, 3 Apr 2019, Michele Neylon - Blacknight wrote:
All
Is someone encouraging astroturfing?
The number of either new or inactive members of this list who have posted one line messages in support of the recent policy discussion has reached insane levels
Regards
Michele
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