[Tagging] Clarify explicit abstention when voting on a proposal

[European Water Project]

An opinion from an OSM neophyte

Abstain should mean just that .. either no vote .. or a blank vote..

It is important to understand why someone chooses to abstain instead of
voting against a proposal.

An abstainer has serious reservations about a specific detail of the
proposal, but believes the goal of what the author is trying to achieve is
noble.

Maybe it makes sense to change abstain to "no, but pls pursue" ?

The goal should stay substance over form .. where proposals for tagging a
feature that do not belong in OSM get canned, mediocre proposals for
something worth mapping improved,  and good one's pass with broad
adoption.

Best regards,

Stuart

On Wed, 12 Feb 2020 at 17:02, Daniel Capilla <dcapillae at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> There is an ongoing discussion to clarify if whatever explicit
> abstaining is the same as no vote during the process of approving a
> proposal. [1] Please feel free to participate in the discussion.
>
> Happy mapping.
>
> Regards,
>
> Daniel
>
>
> [1]
>
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Proposal_process#Clarify_whatever_explicit_abstaining_is_the_same_as_no_vote
>
>
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