[Foundation-l] Steward elections: summary, week one

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
When people vote and do not provide arguments why it is reasonable to ignore
them in circumstances like this one. In the end it is the person who decides
on the outcome how certain votes are valued. We are working on consensus,
this means that it is not only about simple majorities,
Thanks,
       GerardM

2009/2/12 Yaroslav M. Blanter <putevod at mccme.ru>

> > Hoi,
> > There are people I know who put more trust in the Iranian people then in
> > the
> > American people. Now, it is completely unacceptable at this time to deny
> > people from the USA the possibility to become a steward. There are many
> > countries who are not trusted to do right. So how are we going to deal
> > with
> > this ?
> >
> > The mistrust of Iran is as valid as the mistrust of the United States of
> > America. How are we going to deal with this? Is it acceptable to allow
> for
> > this kind of hostile notions? If it is acceptable, should we not deal
> with
> > such arguments consistently and assess each country in the same way ?
> > Thanks,
> >        GerardM
> >
> Actually, I do not think this issue has any solution. Though I perfectly
> agree that the sentiment is unreasonable, the same users could just cast
> no-votes without motivating them, and get out just fine. It has of course
> more impact if one not just votes but also motivates his/her vote, but I
> am not sure in this case the motivations really played any role, it looks
> like users have already made up their minds.
>
> Cheers
> Yaroslav
>
>
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