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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/02/2015 4:34 AM, Paul Johnson
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 8:00 AM, Dave
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<div dir="ltr">+1 "<span style="font-size:16px">Nobody
votes because it's a borderline pointless endeavor."</span></div>
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<big>Yep. <br>
Thus things don't get approved due to lack of votes because few
vote. <br>
And few vote because even a negative vote can cause the minimum
number of required votes to be exceed, enabling an acceptance.<br>
And some want more that a simple majority in order to accept
things. <br>
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Thus the need to reform. <br>
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Ok .. I can see that compulsion on voting won't work... <br>
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So ... How about<br>
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A 3 week minimum voting period - Gives people enough time fore a
holiday and then think and caste vote. <br>
From this 3 week period the proposer may close the voting if a
minimum number of votes are received and a 2/3rds majority vote
for or against. <br>
At 6 weeks and onwards the proposer may close the voting no matter
how few votes have been received and base the acceptance or
failure on a simple majority. <br>
At one year the voting closes. No option, result on simple
majority, if 50/50 then the proposal passes. <br>
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This provides for a chance for people to vote, for consideration
time, and at 6 weeks an incentive to vote as it can be called no
matter how few have voted. <br>
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<div><span style="font-size:16px">I joined this group to
effect changes in tagging things of interest to me.
But the discussions inevitably go round and round
with nary a thing getting resolved. </span><span
style="font-size:16px">If someone has what seems
like a good idea there is always someone else who
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<div>The mailing lists and just going out and tagging seem
to do more good than calling convoluted proposals and
voting sessions, so there's that. For best results, get a
working model going first. It's not like the database is
going to kick out esoterickey=unknownvalue...</div>
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<div><span style="font-size:16px">Frankly, getting
anything done is just too time consuming.</span><br>
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Yep. Thus it needs reform. <br>
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