On 6/29/05, Mark Williamson <node.ue(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I would discourage this. Unless you really don't
have an opinion, why
not vote for your preferred candidates? If you don't have a preference
and you don't like any of them, I can understand.
Well, I did write about it at the included URL.
I like the existing board members, and I think the proposed candidates
are great wikipedians and would probably all do okay. But none of
them have given me much basis to choose between them, nor to choose
against them. All I could really do is mark which ones I've had more
positive contact with, which isn't a really good metric. What little
validity my decision might have today will be long gone before two
years pass.
Had there been a participant with a pure 'I am the legal mouthpiece of
the community', or had there been one with a substantial story about
copyright, or NOR... I might have been inclined to vote in a way which
showed preference for or against them. Heck, had we even had a troll
or controversial user running I'd think a non null ballot would be
useful.