[Tagging] Clarify explicit abstention when voting on a proposal

[Joseph Eisenberg]

After 2 weeks, the discussion at Talk:Proposal_process shows 10 people
in favor of considering an abstention the same as not voting, except
for the quorum, and 1 opposed:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Proposal_process#Clarify_whatever_explicit_abstaining_is_the_same_as_no_vote

"In approved/rejected decision ignore explicit abstentions (10 vote
yes, 1 vote no, 10 "abstain but have comments" would be approved).
In case of describing number of people use "N people participated in
voting" (when including explicit abstentions) or "M people voted"
(when including only yes/no votes, without abstain comments)"

Does anyone else want to add their comments or votes there? This seems
to be a rough consensus now.

- Joseph Eisenberg

On 2/14/20, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
> Am Fr., 14. Feb. 2020 um 10:43 Uhr schrieb European Water Project <
> europeanwaterproject at gmail.com>:
>
>> Hi Martin,
>>
>> According to wikipedia
>>
>> "Abstentions do not *count* in tallying the *vote* negatively or
>> positively; when members *abstain*, they are in effect attending only to
>> contribute to a quorum. "
>>
>> Do you think abstention should be equivalent to a no vote for the final
>> tally ?
>>
>
>
>
> While I admit at first I have found it strange in the past, that (explicit)
> abstentions had the same effect on the counted result than voting no, I do
> not think it is a real problem and the quoted text from Wikipedia, while
> generally not relevant for OSM votes, does not contradict the way we are
> counting. We do not "count" abstentions as no, and neither as "yes", so
> while they will contribute to the quorum, they will not be counted as yes
> or no.
>
> Cheers
> Martin
>