Favoring weakest objections
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Since Oct 22, 2025.
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Description
The managing dissent section recommends that:
Groups should favor proposals that create the weakest objections. This is preferred over proposals that are supported by a large majority but that cause strong objections from a few people.
It is not clear what "weakest" means here - the phrasing seems to imply it is in terms of the intensity of the objection (but it's unclear how one would assess that), but it could also be read (and is being read by some) as referring to the (technical?) strength of the arguments supporting the objection.
cc @jan-ivar @caribouW3
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