Content-Type: text/shitpost


Subject: Asking the wrong question
Path: you​!your-host​!walldrug​!prime-radiant​!berserker​!plovergw​!shitpost​!mjd
Date: 2019-05-21T14:37:55
Newsgroup: rec.pets.wrong-question
Message-ID: <f193a41db8dce872@shitpost.plover.com>
Content-Type: text/shitpost

The New York Python conference PyGotham is trying an experiment: they're letting the community vote on the (suitably anonymized) talk proposals. Interesting idea!

But I think they're asking the wrong question:

Screenshot from
the PyGotham voting site that asks “Should this talk be presented at
PyGotham?” with answers “Definitely yes!”, “I'm impartial.”,
“Definitely not.”

I think it should say instead:

If this talk were presented at PyGotham, would you attend?

⭘ Yes
⭘ Maybe
⭘ No

If I were running a conference, I would care deeply about what people wanted to see, and very little about what they imagined that other people might want to see.