[anti-abuse-wg] Astroturfing?

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
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> Is someone encouraging astroturfing?
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> 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
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> Regards
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> Michele
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