On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 7:00 AM, Jon scream@datascreamer.com wrote:
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I'm speaking for the next round of elections. Nothing can be done for this time, I would not expect anything to be done for this round. I'm speaking of what we can do in the future.
Best, Jon
You choose to discard your prior identity, and I am guessing that your new identity was unable to meet the March 1 deadline for having 600 edits because of the timing of the new identity.
Right to vanish ... is a right to ... _vanish_. It is inappropriate to tailor processes of corporate governance around the right to vanish, ... and then re-appear.
Your proposal would require an exceptional amount of additional work, as similar requests will come in from various languages, requiring translation assistance and introducing uncertainty into the process. There would be complaints that identity merging requests were not processed in time, and there will also be fraudulent attempts to usurp inactive accounts in order to gain suffrage.
A more suitable approach would be to encourage people to meet suffrage criteria with their new accounts before discarding their old account. Perhaps this should be mentioned on RTV.
-- John Vandenberg