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  • From: David Kowis <dkowis AT shlrm.org>
  • To: SM Discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] voting process
  • Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 15:00:28 -0600

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Sergey A. Lipnevich wrote:
> Eric Sandall wrote:
>> We're trying to keep a system that lets everyone vote without any fear
>> of coercion (in any form), which open voting does not allow. It's
>> great that other distros and communities use open voting, but they're
>> not us and we don't have to do what 'everyone else' is doing. We've
>>
> Sure we don't, but we better have a good reason. This thread is about
> finding that reason, and I think nobody including you came up with one.
> Saying "some people want that" is not an answer. People want many
> things, and some of them may be wrong for the project. A specific

Some of them may be right for the project too. Your reasons are other
people do it. To me that's not any better or worse of a reason than some
people wan tit.

> example of "intimidation" or "coercion" would go a long way, similarly
> to a bug report going a long way toward fixing a problem, but all I hear
> is that "it's possible." It's also possible that all the political stuff
> is going to bog down SMGL to the point of irrelevance. Maybe we all have
> to think carefully about doing things differently, and try doing them
> the "old-fashioned" way that has been proven to work at least sometimes.
>
> Eric, let me ask you, a project lead, to explain to me, a long time
> contributor, and this list, how did mandatory anonymous voting make our
> project better? What is it that we gained by instituting that? In

Are we making the project worse? Are we losing anything by implementing
this? All these rhetorical questions are a waste of time. Most people,
either in IRC or on the ML, have no problem with this addendum to our
already existing anonymous voting mechanism. I propose that the powers
that be simply implement a decision so that we can move on to something
productive.

> retrospect, do you think it was a good idea? Do you think more people
> came to the project because they could vote anonymously, or some people
> left before because they couldn't? And if you don't know, let's set up a
> poll and ask everyone, because with so much politics, we might as well
> do it right.
>

I truly don't think very many people care all that much, as long as they
know their vote was counted, and can verify that it was counted
correctly, they're happy. That's my thoughts on the matter.

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David Kowis

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