>Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2020 10:59:59 -0500 >From: Jmapb <jm...@gmx.com> >To: Paul Allen <pla16...@gmail.com>, "Tag discussion, strategy and > related tools" <tagging@openstreetmap.org> >Subject: Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - give box >Message-ID: <1f291f4c-ccbf-34eb-99de-d1fa69570...@gmx.com> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
>On 2/6/2020 10:47 AM, Paul Allen wrote: >> And if they wanted to comment but not vote they'd add their comment to the >> talk page instead. Right? >Absolutely! If that's what the instructions said. But they clearly say >that if you do want to comment, but you don't want to vote, then choose >"abstain." >J "abstain /əbˈsteɪn/verb 1. restrain oneself from doing or enjoying something:"she intends to abstain from sex before marriage" 2. formally decline to vote either for or against a proposal or motion:"forty-one voted with the Opposition, and some sixty more abstained"synonymsnot vote, decline/refuse to vote, informal:sit on the fenceantonymsvote Powered by Oxford Dictionaries" So an abstention is NOT a vote Peter
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