[OSM-talk] voting closed - swimming_pool

[Brent Easton]

Chill out guys,

I'm merely pointing out an interesting anomaly with the current voting scheme. I don't particularly care if you change it or not. I am not having a go at you Robin, who are doing a terrific job.

Cheers,
Brent.

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On 14/01/2008 at 7:54 PM Robin Paulson  wrote:

>On 14/01/2008, Brent Easton <b.easton at exemail.com.au> wrote:
>> If there are votes both  for and against, then it requires 14 Yes votes
>to get something through, but only 1 No vote to can it.
>>
>> In fact, the No voters are more likely to prevent a proposal by NOT
>voting against a proposal once the first No vote is registered!
>>
>
>i'll admit, the voting proposal scheme seems a bit odd, but some
>things are important in this partcular proposal:
>
>1. voting was open for 8 months
>2. the no votes pointed out that there were a lot fo unanswered points
>3. it's a (sort of) duplicate of sport=swimming
>
>if it had solely been 11 yes votes and 3 no votes, i would have put it
>in the approved features page, but the proposal makes no sense at all,
>so that would be bad.
>there's no reason it can't be proposed again, coupled with making
>sport=swimming obsolete which would probably be best because it's such
>a muddled mess
>
>if you would like to change the voting numbers, there's no reason it
>can't be discussed, as with anything else on osm
>
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Brent Easton                       
Analyst/Programmer                               
University of Western Sydney                                   
Email: b.easton at uws.edu.au