On 6/29/05, Mark Williamson node.ue@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.