Re: [opennic-discuss] [PROPOSAL] 1 year wait before re-voting

Jonah Aragon <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.opennic.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Seeing as I was called out specifically in the initial post, I figured I should chime in. Adding such a time limit just seems arbitrary to me. I’ll be voting for no change to the current system, barring some extraordinary argument. Is there any precedent for such a system in other democratic setups? 

Jonah

> On Jul 9, 2018, at 9:05 PM, Daniel Quintiliani <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Would probably be best instead of a yes/no to do something like:
> 
> * 1 year
> * 8 months
> * 6 months 
> * Less than 6 months, determined by a separate proposal
> * No changes.
> 
> If "less than 6 months" is chosen, we can do a separate proposal with
> 
>  * 3 months
>  * 1 months
>  * No changes. 
> 
> If "no changes" wins in either case, proposals such as this cannot be revisited for 6 months after the votes are counted.
> 
> Would you agree that this is a better way?
> 
> --
> 
> -Dan Q
> 
> 
>> On Mon, 09 Jul 2018 22:09:30 +0100, Sebastian Makowiecki <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Was thinking 6-8 months. Eight seems fair.
>> 
>> ~
>> Sebastian Makowiecki
>> 
>> On Mon, 9 Jul, 2018 at 10:03 PM, Daniel Quintiliani <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>>> 6 months?
>>> 
>>> --
>>> 
>>> -Dan Q
>>> 
>>> On Mon, 09 Jul 2018 21:52:12 +0100, Sebastian Makowiecki 
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> The idea is good, one year to much, 3 months to little, in my 
>>>> opinion
>>>> that is for what is worth.
>>>> 
>>>> ~
>>>> Sebastian Makowiecki
>>>> 
>>>>> On Mon, 9 Jul, 2018 at 9:42 PM, Rouben <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> 1 year might be a bit too much... perhaps 1-3 months?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Rouben
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 2:29 PM Daniel Quintiliani 
>>>> <[email protected]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> There has been a problem of people trying to hold new votes too
>>>>>> recently after their proposals lose. This includes Jonah's 
>>>> proposals
>>>>>> to replace IRC with Discord and Sympa with Discourse, and someone
>>>>>> who lost I think the .front TLD, and I did so myself with the
>>>>>> .free/.libre thing.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I propose there be a one year (365 day) waiting period before 
>>>> anyone
>>>>>> can bring proposals back up for a new vote.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> What do you think?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> -Dan Q
>>>>>> 
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