Re: [opennic-discuss] [VOTE] Clarification of voting rules

I vote "No" as the proposal hasn't been discussed much, and terminology
is strange.


On 08/16/2018 06:01 PM, Al Beano wrote:
> Voting starts: 2018-08-16 16:00 UTC
> Voting ends: 2018-08-23 16:00 UTC
>
> The quality of discourse on this list recently has been extremely
> poor, and although I am loath to introduce yet another bureaucratic
> vote, I think that a standard, agreed upon set of voting rules would
> go some way towards improving things here.
>
> I started a discussion about this some weeks ago
> (https://lists.opennicproject.org/sympa/arc/discuss/2018-07/msg00113.html)
> and I am now bringing this to a vote.
>
> 1. Formal votes on proposals submitted to the mailing list will have
> three possible responses: yes, no and spoiled ballot/abstention.
> 2. Responses which clearly contain "YES", "AYE" or words to that
> effect will be considered "yes" votes.
> 3. Responses which clearly contain "NO", "NAY" or words to that effect
> will be considered "no" votes.
> 4. All other responses will be considered abstentions from voting and
> counted as such.
> 5. Motions will pass with a simple majority of all yes/no votes.
> Abstentions do not affect the outcome in any way. They are informational.
> 6. In the event of a tie, the status quo will be preserved.
> 7. This proposal will govern all votes submitted after it passes.
>
> This proposal only governs *formal* votes - that is, votes which will
> directly affect the way OpenNIC runs. If members want to use a
> different method to gauge the membership's opinion, for example to
> allow more than two outcomes in a vote, they are still able to do that
> in any way they want. If they want to make a formal change to the
> rules after that, they would have to run a vote in compliance with the
> rules above.
>
> Obviously, my vote for this is YES.
>
> albino
>
>
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