No opinion means no opinion and should not be interpreted in any way, the group represents an uncertainty in the result. John
Erik Moeller skrev: > 2009/5/20 Robert Rohde <raro...@gmail.com>: >> The licensing update poll has been tallied. >> >> "Yes, I am in favor of this change" : 13242 (75.8%) >> "No, I am opposed to this change" : 1829 (10.5%) >> "I do not have an opinion on this change" : 2391 (13.7%) > > I do want to state for the record that the only reason a "no opinion" > option was included in the vote was to give users an option to "not > vote" explicitly if they didn't feel they could have an informed > opinion on such a complex issue, so that they wouldn't feel compelled > to make one up. In other words, it was a measure intended to increase > the quality of the yes/no votes. But I don't think these neutral votes > should be given greater weight than the people who expressed no > opinion by not voting. > > In other words, I consider this for all intents and purposes an > 88%/12% result (it was also stated in the proposal that "votes that > express a preference" would be the basis of any decision). I say this > because that is important if people want to view it through the lens > of our traditional standards of "rough consensus". :-) _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
