This poll is totally not helpful. These changes are a huge fundamental change to the bitcoin protocol, and it is a bad idea for people to be treating such a serious topic like a popularity contest.
Far better would be if you closed this thread, researched the topic a bit and then make a post with a balanced summary of all the viewpoints. Like this you are encouraging everyone to pick and choose based on social proof or popularity.
And I am totally neutral on this topic.
This post is in no way meant to trivialize the topic, quite the contrary, I think it is important to gauge the sentiment of the community, especially since the devs cannot seem to agree on the topic and the whole issue is becoming quite contentious and maybe even a little ugly. I do not want to encourage "popularity contests" and frankly, I don't think that the results of a silly forum poll won't hold any influence over the decisions of those who are truly involved with the implementation of protocol changes. I do however feel that the vast majority of the community has not been encouraged to participate in the discussion and I think everyone should be at least somewhat active in these matters. Really, I hope to encourage some discussion among the 99% of us here that are not participating in core development, and if there are devs who are passionate and unhappy with the results they see here, perhaps they need to more strongly express their positions to the community in a way that everyone can understand so that we can make the best decision possible and keep everyone informed. I think we all appreciate the hard work that everyone in the development team puts forth and I hope that no one feels undermined by anything that gets posted here.
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