Pavitra wrote: > Ed Murphy wrote: >> Upon such an occurrence, the vote collector for the decision >> SHOULD issue a humiliating public reminder to the slackers who >> have not yet cast any votes on it despite being eligible, and >> CAN end the voting decision by announcement if the result would >> no longer be FAILED QUORUM. > > Note that this provides a strong incentive to slackers to vote quickly, > as the vote collector can potentially control the outcome in this > circumstance by waiting for eir preferred outcome to reach majority, > then quickly resolving the decision. I consider this a feature; others > may not.
As usual, this is balanced by the possibility of electing a new vote collector. Of course, it's only an issue at all if quorum isn't reached within the first week, which hadn't happened for a while before 6073-85.
