Re: [opennic-discuss] [PROPOSAL] Require voting in English

Yes.  I was aware of that.

And I extended my opinion on all other comments.  I did not feel like
threading them all together, since I was simply stating my opinion on
the whole thing, in general.

Kevin

On Wed, 2018-08-08 at 02:46 +0000, [email protected] wrote:
> FYI, the person you're quoting is talking about votes, not the list
> in 
> general.
> 
> On 2018-08-08 02:33, kevin wrote:
> > 
> > Yeah, no.  Don't think that's a really good assertion on an
> > international collaboration to make English some formal language of
> > openNIC.  I really don't mind if conversations go on on this list
> > in
> > any language one so chooses.  Not exactly sure why that is so
> > important.  If I don't understand, then either I don't need to, or
> > maybe I should take some time to learn another language.
> > 
> > Anyhow, the guys were obviously spoiling their ballots.
> > 
> > Also, regarding the idea of not allowing "free form" ballots.  As a
> > voter, it is completely up to a voter to spoil a ballot.  That is
> > certainly one of the "rights" the democratic systems are supposed
> > to
> > uphold. How they spoil the ballot is up to them, not a check box
> > that
> > says "spoil".
> > 
> > I think there's way too much nudging of the "decomocracy" of
> > openNIC to
> > corral members to a very, very small box.
> > 
> > Kevin
> > 
> > On Tue, 2018-08-07 at 14:50 -0400, Daniel Quintiliani wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > A number of individuals are voting on proposals in other
> > > languages
> > > (Austrian? German?). Not everyone can speak these languages, and
> > > I've
> > > never seen languages other than English spoken on the list. I
> > > don't
> > > know how to process these votes, though I'm hoping someone else
> > > can
> > > before time runs out (or until someone translates them for Jonah
> > > and
> > > I). But in the future, unless the demographics in this shift into
> > > speakers of another language, who can reverse saide policy, we
> > > should
> > > require voting in English, with votes in other languages
> > > considered
> > > invalid.
> > > 
> > > What do you think?
> > > 
> > > --
> > > 
> > > -Dan Q
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