If you’re asking some some kind of abstract moral value sense, I have idea.
replyIf you’re asking whether project leads give more weight to a single, tangible, vocal stakeholder than they do to unknown numbers of anonymous and lightly-engaged stakeholders? Yes.
Not to mention when the single, tangible, vocal stakeholder can also be asked to be responsible for documentation (PEPs, etc) and PRs. Especially in open source there is a huge difference between "a lot of people asked about this" and "one person asked about this, but was passionate enough about it and open enough to following the process and the feedback loops to champion it all the way across the finish line".
replyI don't have any issue with what you're saying if that's what happened. There's quite a gap between that sort of reasoned explanation and treating concerns about large stakeholders versus large numbers of small one with derision.
replyI mean, yes, demonstrably, the phenomenon you're describing happens. Your previous comment seems pretty sarcastically dismissing the idea that someone could disagree with this being a good thing though, and I was making a counterargument against the underlying opinion that seemed apparent.
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