Quoting Don Armstrong (2021-04-19 00:39:12) > On Sun, 18 Apr 2021, Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote: > > If we look at the actual ballots, it's really interesting. Options 7 > > and 8 were semantically pretty much equivalent. It's hard to see any > > reason for someone to rank them very differently. > > 7 was a decision to not issue a statement ["There's no statement on > this issue that I want Debian to issue"]. 8 was a decision for further > discussion ["There may be statement on this issue that I'd want Debian > to issue, but it's not here."] > > When there isn't an explicit "no decision" option on the ballot, > further discussion encompass both, but that is not the case here. > > > It's very difficult to imagine someone who actually preferred option > > 7 being equally satisfied with any of options 1-6 and 8. > > Here's an example thought process that works: "I want Debian to stop > discussing this issue and anything more that Debian does on this issue > is equally bad." > > Or another one: "I know that I prefer this option, but I'm not > comfortable with the rest of the options to decide what the project > should do, so I'll defer to the project's judgement." > > Not to say that there aren't voters who are confused, but you should > contact them to figure out why they voted the way they did before > assuming that they didn't know what they were doing. In case anyone wants to pick a live brain on this, I volunteer: At first I voted 7-8: I explicitly preferred Debian to *not* issue a statement. Then, after reading the discussion on this list about the concern over people leaving options below FD "blank", I changed my vote to wade through all those options I did *not* want Debian to make and try rank the severity of their badness - while being worried that my vote is public so I expose my priority of evil thoughts to the World. - Jonas P.S. This is *not* an invitation to rehash a debate over which ballot options are or are not sane. My offer is that if you have trouble understanding why someone deliberately choose to vote by the two _patterns_ described above then I am willing to reflect on that. Perhaps you even manage to point out to me that I am a fool and did what I did for the wrong reasons. -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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