Thanks for your comments. I think you’re mostly right, and I apologize for not being able to write more or more carefully at the moment.
they did the BOTEC, if you read the post you linked to
I did, a few times. The BOTEC is… extremely BOTE-y, and significantly too optimistic in my opinion, but absolutely better than no discussion of effectiveness.
the reflexive take that “Carrick lost, so this was a bad decision” is unhelpful
I totally agree.
I’d welcome more specific thoughts on how and why “the community’s decision-making process wasn’t very grounded in donations’ probability of tipping the election”
I guess I’m mostly reacting to sentiment on the forum in early February, which did not feel very concerned with how likely Carrick was to win (and iirc there was no analysis other than ASB’s shared on the forum), and independent of donations partly reacting to discourse similarly to Habryka.
Thanks for your comments. I think you’re mostly right, and I apologize for not being able to write more or more carefully at the moment.
I did, a few times. The BOTEC is… extremely BOTE-y, and significantly too optimistic in my opinion, but absolutely better than no discussion of effectiveness.
I totally agree.
I guess I’m mostly reacting to sentiment on the forum in early February, which did not feel very concerned with how likely Carrick was to win (and iirc there was no analysis other than ASB’s shared on the forum), and independent of donations partly reacting to discourse similarly to Habryka.